Since when were Christians porkophobic?
However, to get back to the original topic in-breeding can be a danger wherever you get a minority group who seek to marry within their own kind. It can happen in small villages where (like Poppy describes) you end up with just a few family surnames and everyone seems to be everyone else's cousin (be it two three or four times removed) or within religious groups where it is important to people to marry their own kind because differences of values would cause real problems.
It happens in our church although some do venture out there and even occasionally marry someone from another area or even another country you also tend to find that there's some family connection somewhere along the lines between most people. I think until my girls marry we are one of the few who are not actually related to any other church family - yet.
There can be real problems with in-breeding where inherited diseases and what have you are concerned so it's a valid topic, although not confined to Muslims in Britain. Of course it wouldn't relate to Muslims in a Muslim country because they have far more choice of marriage partners - which may also have some bearing on looking to 'the home country' for a husband or wife in order to bring new blood into the gene pool. |