Professor Jones is customarily pilloried on this Blog but if somebody is right - they are right.
I do hope he is not accused of racism for what has long been recognised as an objective fact - and one which I think, he delivered with compassion.
'Inbreeding among British Muslims is threatening the health of their children, a leading geneticist warned yesterday.
Professor Steve Jones, from University College London, said the common practice in Islamic communities for cousins to marry each other increased the risk of birth defects.
‘There may be some evidence that cousins marrying one another can be harmful,’ he told an audience at the Hay Festival.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392217/Muslim-outrage-professor-warns-inbreeding-risks.html#ixzz1NocfFtAf
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1392938/Inbreeding-Islamic-communities-deformed-babies-conspiracy-silence.html
