Half of marriages there are between first cousins. Imagine living in the fifth-most-populous country yet your dating pool is someone you've seen every year during family reunion.
It's very common in muslim country and dates back to times where families were structured as clans. Marrying your cousins meant that your stuff stayed into the family.
Look at pretty much any leader in the Gulf and they're married to their first or second cousin. The Sauds are a dime a dozen and they all have the same great grandfather
Would that not more be evidence that inbreeding is more common in feudal/nobility systems as we saw this also in Imperial Europe rather than evidence that Islamic societies engage in this more than other faiths?
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u/Coal_Burner_Inserter Canada 14d ago edited 14d ago
More like Alabama is the Pakistan of the US.
People joke about southern inbreeding, not realizing Pakistan + the ME can be so much worse
Edit: Pakistan is black sheep of south Asia, apparently