Inbreeding: Pakistan & Islam

Former British Labour MP Mrs Cryer: calls for end to 'cousin' marriages
First-cousin marriages are leading to the births of children in Keighley with severe disabilities, claims the town's MP.
Ann Cryer claimed deafness, blindness and multiple handicaps were among the consequences of Asians marrying close family members.
She has called on the Asian community to stop the centuries-old tradition and find husbands and wives outside their family.
She said that helped several local Asian families who suffered "enormous difficulties" because their children had physical or learning disabilities.
Mrs Cryer said: "The only solution is not to marry first cousins. If they carry on, they'll carry on having these genetic disorders."
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8084544.mp-calls-for-end-to-cousin-marriages/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Cryer

https://www.bradford.gov.uk/media/3276/cousin-marriage-and-genetic-inheritance-leaflet.pdf

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/censusareachanges/E08000032/
n 2021, 33.4% of people in Bradford described themselves as Christian (down from 45.9%), while 30.5% described themselves as Muslim
(up from 24.7% the decade before).19 Jan 2023

Inbreeding, the mating of individuals or organisms that are closely related through common ancestry
https://www.britannica.com/science/inbreeding

Basicmedical Key
https://basicmedicalkey.com/inbreeding/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1765114/
Inbreeding and diseases: demographic, genetic, and epidemiologic perspectives

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/15/cousin-marriages-cited-as-significant-factor-bradford-child-deaths
The report, published annually by Bradford children’s safeguarding board, reviewed 69 child deaths.
These included 29 that occurred in 2017-18, 33 in 2016-17, and seven that took place in previous years.
More than two-thirds of these deaths, 67%, involved children under the age of one, most of whom died within 28 days.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hiba-maroof-should-i-marry-my-cousin-bbc-three-documentary-bradford-genetic-a7830501.html
In Hiba Maroof's home town of Bradford, around 70 per cent of young people with Pakistani heritage are thought to marry their first cousins

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355277/Warning-cousin-marriages-Unions-blood-relatives-Pakistani-community-account-birth-defects-children.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Warning over cousin marriages: Unions between blood relatives in Pakistani community account for third of birth defects in their children

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-cousin-marriages-create-high-risk-of-genetic-disorders/a-60687452
"My biggest regret is that they could not get education," he said. "I am always worried about them
Shah said he had to marry off his one son and two daughters to close relatives. His family's medical history
includes cases of blood disorders, learning disabilities, blindness and deafness. Doctors have said inbreeding could be to blame.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1212811
Deformities in Charsadda: Cousin marriages, and the heavy price children pay

https://www.progress.org.uk/risk-of-birth-defects-from-cousin-marriage-revealed-by-bradford-study/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaynab_bint_Jahsh
Zaynab bint Jahsh (590–641)

https://www.al-islam.org/ask/topics/9417/questions-about-Zaynab-bint-Jahsh

https://quran.com/33/37
And [remember, O Muḥammad], when you said to the one on whom Allāh bestowed favor and you bestowed favor,
"Keep your wife and fear Allāh," while you concealed within yourself that which Allāh is to disclose.
And you feared the people,3 while Allāh has more right that you fear Him.4 So when Zayd had no longer any need for her, We married her to you in order that there not be upon the believers any discomfort
[i.e., guilt] concerning the wives of their claimed [i.e., adopted] sons when they no longer have need of them.
And ever is the command [i.e., decree] of Allāh accomplished.

https://quran.com/en/al-ahzab/50
"O Prophet! We have made lawful for you your wives to whom you have paid their
full dowries as well as those bondwomen in your possession, whom Allah has
granted you. And you are allowed to marry the daughters of your paternal
uncles and aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and aunts,
who have emigrated like you. Also allowed for marriage is a believing woman
who offers herself to the Prophet without dowry if he is interested in
marrying her—this is exclusively for you, not for the rest of the believers.
We know well what rulings We have ordained for the believers in relation to
their wives and those bondwomen in their possession.
As such, there would be no blame on you. And Allah is All-Forgiving,
Most Merciful."