Among the results are lower average
intelligence and impaired health
Muslim culture still practices
inbreeding and has been doing so for
the better part of 1400 years.
Consanguineous marriages were
originally sanctioned by Islam’s
prophet Muhammed, who had a very
liberal view on men’s sexual
relationships. In addition his many
sex slaves, he married several cousins,
the divorced wife of his own adopted
son and the six year old Aisha, with
whom he had sex with when she was
nine.
A rough estimate shows that close to
half of the world’s Muslims are inbred
as a result of consanguineous
marriages. In Pakistan, 70 percent of
all marriages are between first cousins
– children of siblings – and in Turkey
the share is 25-30 percent.
Statistical research on Arabic countries
indicates that up to 34 percent of all
marriages in Algeria are blood-related
as are 46 percent in Bahrain, 33
percent in Egypt, 80 percent in Nubia
(the southern part of Egypt), 60
percent in Iraq, 64 percent in Jordan,
64 percent in Kuwait, 42 percent in
Lebanon, 48 percent in Libya, 47
percent in Mauritania, 54 percent in
Qatar, 67 percent in Saudi Arabia, 63
percent in Sudan, 40 percent in Syria,
39 percent in Tunisia, 54 percent in
the United Arabic Emirates and 45
percent in Yemen. According to Dr.
Nadia Sakati of King Faisal Specialist
Hospital in Riyadh, 45 percent of
married Arab couples are blood-
related. . The fact that many of these
couples are themselves children of
blood-related parents increases the
risk of negative consequences.
The number of blood-
related marriages is lower among
Muslim immigrants living in the West.
Among Pakistanis living in Denmark
the number is down to 40 percent
and it is 15 percent among Turkish
immigrants. This may be due to the
fact that immigration rules make it
difficult to import family-related
brides. Another factor may be better
information on the risks connected
with blood-related marriages. Because
of better human rights protection it is
also more difficult for traditional
Muslim families to force their children
to marry within the family.
In spite of the lower percentage of
consanguineous marriages among
Muslims living in the West, at least 55
percent of Pakistanis living in the
United Kingdom are married to a first
cousin. This is thought to explain why
British Pakistani families are at least 13
times more likely than the general
population to have children with
recessive genetic disorders – often
resulting in serious genetic diseases.
Several studies show that, on
average, children of consanguineous
marriages have lower intelligence than
children of non-related parents. The
average intelligence quotient, IQ, in
any age group is 100. Depending on
the theoretical basis, the line between
normal intelligence and low
intelligence is 90 or 85. Below 70-79 is
categorized as mild disability, 50-69 is
moderate disability. Significantly more
low-IQ children drop out of school
and remain unskilled workers
throughout life.
There are many studies on the
intelligence effects of inbreeding
among cousins. One study from
Bihar, India, on Muslim children living
in suburban areas, shows that while
outbred offspring have an average IQ
of 95, inbred children have an average
IQ of 79, which puts them in category
of people with “low intelligence”
having special needs in schools,
difficulty handling simple job tasks
and completing a basic education. The
study also shows the social profiles
like visual fixation, social smile, sound
seizures, oral expression and hand
grasping are significantly delayed
among the newborn inbred babies. A
decrease in the ability to understand
and react to social interaction is
known to have a negative influence
on children’s development, including
social skills and empathy, later in life.
Other studies reach similar
conclusions, also when adjusted for
socioeconomic status. The cognitive
consequences of Muslim inbreeding
may explain why non-Western
immigrants are more than 300
percent more likely than native Danes
to fail the Danish army’s intelligence
test. It may also be part of the
explanation why two-thirds of school
children with Arabic backgrounds are
illiterate after 10 years in the Danish
school system. The connection
between low intelligence and a lack of
ability to be self-supporting is well
established. The extreme lack of
scientific and social contributions from
the Muslim world may be another
result of inbreeding. While 184 Jews
have received the Nobel Prize for their
scientific, social and artistic
contributions to the world, only 10
Muslims have had this honor.
Since 1901 Jews have received 34
percent of all Nobel Prizes. The world
Jewish population in 2012 is
approximately 14 million whereas the
total number of Muslims is estimated
to number 1.5 billion.
The risk of stillbirth doubles when
parents are first cousins. A study
comparing Pakistani children of
consanguineous marriages with
Norwegian children shows a 50
percent higher risk that babies die
during birth. Infant mortality among
the inbred Pakistani children was
more than double that among the
Norwegian children. Deaths due to
disorders such as cystic fibrosis and
spinal muscular atrophy were 18
times more common among the
Pakistani children and deaths due to
multiple malformations, which may be
part of unrecognized autosomal
recessive syndromes, were 10 times
more common.
Other research concludes that
inbred people have a higher risk of
developing mental disorders such as
depression and schizophrenia. The
practice of consanguineous marriages
in Muslim families may thus explain
why more than 40 percent of the
patients in Denmark’s Sct. Hans
Hospital for the criminally insane and
70 percent of the inmates in Danish
youth prisons have immigrant
backgrounds.
The consequences of
consanguineous marriages may also
bring us closer to an understanding
Islamic terrorism. One study suggests
that many suicide bombers are
suffering from depression. Among
some Muslims their actions are
considered a socially acceptable way
of committing suicide in order to end
mental torment.
A study from Kabul, Afghanistan,
based on autopsies of the remains of
suicide bombers, shows that close to
90 percent were suffering from severe
illnesses or deficiencies such as
blindness, cancer, missing limbs or
leprosy. Many Muslim societies,
including that of Afghanistan, have a
low social acceptance of handicaps
and mental illness. Being physically
handicapped or mentally retarded
often leads to exclusion. Becoming a
martyr may be the only chance of
achieving social recognition and
honor. Some cases of Down’s
syndrome may be another unpleasant
effect of inbreeding and al-Qaeda has
been known to use people afflicted
with it. People with low intelligence
may also be more easily convinced
that Islam, with its promise of 72
virgins to Muslims who die fighting for
their religion, is true.
Inbreeding among Muslims has
severe social implications both for the
Western societies and the Muslim
world. According to Danish Social
worker Merete Lefelt, “When cousins
have children together, they are twice
as likely to have a disabled child. …
Disabled immigrant children cost
Danish municipalities millions. In
Copenhagen the number of disabled
children … has doubled over 10
years.” She has contacted 330 families
with disabled children in Copenhagen
and estimates that one-third of her
clients have a foreign cultural
background. The cost of special
education for slow learners consumes
one-third of the Danish school
budget. This means less money for
normal and gifted learners. 51 percent
of the children in Copenhagen’s three
schools for children with physical and
mental handicaps have immigrant
backgrounds.
High levels of education may also
make it harder for inbred students to
finish their studies. Students with
minority backgrounds have a
significantly higher dropout rate at
secondary schools than youths with a
Danish background. In business
schools, the dropout rate among
immigrants is 60 percent, twice as
high as among students with a Danish
background. Interestingly the dropout
among young people with Lebanese
or Iranian background is far greater
than among people of e.g.
Vietnamese background. (Center for
Knowledge on Integration in Randers,
May 2005 “Youth, education and
integration“).
The limited ability to understand,
appreciate and produce knowledge as
a result of low IQ is probably part of
the reason why Muslim countries only
produce one-tenth of the World
average when it comes to scientific
research. In 2003 the world average
for production of scientific articles was
137 per million inhabitants, whereas
the average among 47 Islamic
countries was just 13.

Stupid article from a stupid person. Islamic civilisation predates most of western civilisation. Muslim scientist played a great role in scientific discoveries and writings. What about non Muslim countries that dont marry their cousins and are still left behind?