>>13048076https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/muslim-inbreeding-huge-problem-and-people-dont-want-talk-about-it/>“Saudi Arabia is a living genetics laboratory,” Dr. Stephen R. Schroeder, executive director of the Prince Salman Center for Disability Research, told the Times. “Here you can study 10 families to study genetic disorders, where you would need 10,000 families to study genetic disorders in the United States.”>But it’s not just Saudi Arabia, or the Middle East for that matter. Inbreeding is surprisingly common in many Muslim nations and communities, evidence shows.>About 40 percent of the population marries a cousin in Egypt, according to a 2016 report in The Economist, while the percentage in Jordan is 32 percent.>“Rates are thought to be even higher in tribal countries such as Iraq and the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Kuwait,” says the Economist.>A 2005 BBC survey found that 55 percent of Britain’s huge Pakistani population was married to a first cousin.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_East>As of 2003, an average of 45% of married couples were related in the Arab world.17 years ago literally almost half of everyone marriage was inbred and it's only gone up.
