Outcry.

There has been a major outcry over the words of a government minister:
Phil Woolas claimed that this ...[marriage between close relatives and in particular first cousins in Islamic communities ]...had caused a surge in birth defects in the UK.
The Environment Minister also suggested the issue was being ignored by Muslim leaders, declaring it was the "elephant in the room" which urgently needed to be addressed.
Outcry? Why? Was he wrong?
If he is right - yet again the politically correct have been doing their poisonous work.