A meeting of medical practitioners and geneticists organised by the Progress Educational Trust in London last night revealed deep rifts over the appropriate response to high levels of cousin marriage in Britain's Pakistani community. (politics.co.uk)
It was once unheard of for a blind woman with a guide dog to be refused a bus ride — this is not uncommon now, we have the beginning of Sharia in the UK, we have men with more than one legal wife in the UK, we have first cousin marriages causing terrible illnesses and so on. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
But those views were attacked by Muslim GP Mohamed Walji, whose practise in Birmingham has produced health education leaflets on the subject, leading to negligible levels of cousin marriage in an area where most of his patients are Pakistani Muslims. (politics.co.uk)