If you go into a paediatric ward in Bradford or Keighley, you will find more than half the kids are from the Asian community,’ she said. ![]() Critic: Keighley MP Anne Cryer has condemned first-cousin marriages ‘It is not fair to the children or to the NHS which has to treat them. This week, leading geneticist Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, warned that ‘inbreeding’ in Islamic communities was threatening the health of generations of children. ‘This highlights a cultural and religious issue relating to first-cousin marriages and the potential risk to children that some medical experts say can result from such unions.' He said: ‘This highlights a cultural and religious issue relating to first-cousin marriages and the potential risk to children that some medical experts say can result from such unions.’ The coroner chose his words carefully, since he was addressing one of the most controversial - and taboo - subjects in multi-cultural Britain: marriage between cousins in the Muslim communities which has left hundreds, if not thousands, of children damaged or dead.
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