Why do muslim people get Married to their own Cousins when they know it is wrong?

Question

I MEAN THE ASIAN MUSLIMS

Answer 1

They do.............................lol

Answer 2

To give you a better prospective on the whole marrying cousins ideal, start working on your own family history. You will be amazed at how many of your own cousins married each other, and with out those marriages and the children from them, you would not be here.

I have many cousins who were married to one another in both my and my husband's histories. I can deal with that a lot better than the one guy I have who, after his second wife died, married her daughter! Yes, his own stepdaughter!

Where do you find that it's "wrong" to marry ones cousin? Incest is delineated by direct bloodline relation (parent or sibling).

Do a little more checking. I think someone has given you some partial information.

Answer 3

Read clarification, and I'm still confused. There's a general Asia- wide ban on cousin marriage? (Or within the Asian Muslim community?) More data, please.

FWIW, not all states in the US banned marriage of cousins (anybody read _Gone With the Wind_? "The Wilkeses ALWAYS marry their cousins"...) , and think a number of other European peoples didn't have any particular problem with it.

Answer 4

The religion of Islam encourages people to get married period, for the good that marriage brings to society and the codependency of two perfect individuals from the opposite sex. Islam also encourages people to marry from different tribes and ethnicities for that it brings people closer together. Islam also discourages the marriage of close relatives but doesn't not disallow it, realizing that some tribal and traditional customs have been so strong about keeping lineage and not mixing. Also the idea of social class and pedigree is important and the teaching of Islam as taught by the great Prophet Mohamed realizing the influence of society and the reluctance to give up some entrenched traditions he as instructed by God left some traditions that were not detrimental to the core belief of the religion unchanged.

Answer 5

I would imagine it started many thousands of years ago when they had small family's/ tribes and the only way to keep there family strong and in great numbers was to marry cousins. If you read in the Bible there was Adam and Eve well they had children and there children had children and so on so technically we are all part of the same family if you think about it!

Answer 6

Because they *don't* consider it wrong. Consanguinious marriage is a common cultural practice in South Asia and therefore considered quite normal. Although it's not the norm here, marriage between first cousins isn't against the law, so presumably British society doesn't perceive it to be "wrong" either.

There is a very slight risk of increased genetic diseases, but the risk is highly over-exaggerated.

Answer 7

y is it wrong for them and not for british people to do it?
and dont brand them all the same no muslim ive evr known has married their cousin and ive been married into a large family of them!

Answer 8

Am I missing something? It is perfectly legal for cousins to marry in Great Britain as long as they are of the opposite sex and not marrried already. Same sex cousins may contract Civil Partnerships.

Answer 9

What you should be asking is why the British so called royal family and all the aristocracy of this country have been doing this for a lot longer than anyone else and why these inbreds are allowed to run this country

Answer 10

Who said it was wrong? Queen Victoria married her first cousin and came from a long line of people who married their cousins...on second thoughts....

Answer 11

Read your Bible. I am Christian. Quote me chapter and verse where it is forbidden to marry your cousin. I will save you the trouble of looking it's not there. You are not teaching according to Christian or Jewish faith. If you choose to teach God's morality please be prepared to show the proof in the word.