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28 januar 2012

Dawah i Britanistan

Interessant oplysning om islam: Mere end 1300 års islamisk styre har kun resulteret i 60 voldtægter!

How to fix the UK economy – letter to DC

Arkiveret i: Økonomi, Immigration, Penge, Politik, UK — Tags:, , — Hodja @ 16:41

Dear Mr. Cameron,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing the UK ‘s economy.

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings – unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered – Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week …..
And there’s your money back in duty/tax etc

It can’t get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

Also………..
Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.

This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.

They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead of paying it out.

They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.

Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.

A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.

They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.

They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.

Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ’s and legal aid would be free, on request.

Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.

Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.

There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.

The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria?

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

En misforståelse

Arkiveret i: Citater, Humor, Islam, Pakistan, Venstrefløjen — Skjoldungen @ 10:44

Vi hodjanere er såmænd lige så uvidende som alle andre…

Economic Times: “Islam is the “most misunderstood” and “misrepresented” faith in the world, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said today and acknowledged that illiterate and irresponsible people have been allowed to take the religion in their hands. – “In my mind Islam is the most misunderstood and misrepresented religion in the world. For example, Islam is the one religion that reinforces respect for women but we, the entire world must take responsibility because we have let Islam to be misrepresented,” Khar said during a debate on Democracy at the World Economic Forum ( WEF) here. – She said Islam supports best of the democracies and her country would become the best example of this fact in ten years of time.

“If you ask whether Islam will come in the way of democracy, it is the other way round. Islam supports best of the democracies. Islam and democracy are not contradictory forces. They are rather supportive forces. Pakistan will become the best example of this fact in ten years of time. – “We have to take Islam away from the hands of the left overs of the society. We have let illiterate and irresponsible people take Islam in their hands. But it is also the duty of the Western world to understand the difference. They have been very biased on various occasions,” she added.”

Motiv: Ukendt

Journalister adskiller sig fra alle andre mennesker på eet punkt: de har et uløseligt mysterium.

Washington Post: “Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of the nation’s most recent heroes, aiming to desecrate the stones with Arabic statements and leave handfuls of explosive material nearby as a message.

Before police foiled the plan in June, the vandalism was to be Melaku’s sixth attack, months after he went on a mysterious shooting spree that targeted the Pentagon, the National Museum of the Marine Corps and two other military buildings in Northern Virginia. A video found after Melaku’s arrest showed him wearing a black mask and shooting a 9mm handgun out of his Acura’s passenger window as he drove along Interstate 95, shouting “Allahu Akbar!”.

Melaku stood in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Thursday morning to plead guilty to three counts, including shooting at the Pentagon on Oct. 19, 2010, and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials on U.S. property. As part of a plea agreement, Melaku admitted to using his legally obtained 9mm handgun to shoot the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the Pentagon and two military recruiting offices in October and November 2010. The agreement calls for Melaku to serve 25 years in prison. Judge Gerald Bruce Lee accepted the plea, and Melaku is scheduled for sentencing on April 27.

Although Melaku acknowledged shooting at the buildings — attacks that did not injure anyone but caused an estimated $111,000 in damage — it still remains unclear why he did it“.

Der er håb endnu…

Arkiveret i: Bloggere, Demokrati, Diverse, Europa, Frankrig, Jernhesten, Politik — Jernhesten @ 00:27

Meningsmåling:  The gap narrows between Le Pen and Nicolas Sarkozy – 2012 Presidential

According to an Ifop /Fiducial poll for the Paris Match site published this Friday, January 27, the first-round gap between Nicolas Sarkozy and FN candidate Marine Le Pen appears to be 1.5 points.

To the question: “If the first round of the presidential election was to be held on Sunday, for which of the following candidates would you most likely vote?”, 28% of respondents said François Hollande (+1 point), 22% Nicolas Sarkozy (-1 point), Marine Le Pen 20.5% (+0.5 points) and 13.5% François Bayrou. Behind them, Jean-Luc Melenchon collects 8% of the vote, Eva Joly 3%, Dominique de Villepin 1.5% and Herve Morin 1%.

 

27 januar 2012

God racisme-weekend!

Arkiveret i: Film, Humor, USA/Canada — Skjoldungen @ 20:31

I just hope we meet no Muslims, man!

Her er en lille film, som vil give stampisterne en del hovedbrud. Det er en scene fra en gammel film – “Silver Streak” – med Gene wilder og Richard Pryor. En hvid mand er jagtet af politiet og har allieret sig med en sort, som vil hjælpe ham ombord på toget Silver Streak til Chicago. Spørgsmålet til Zenia & Co. er nu, om filmen gør nar af sorte, eller om sorte gør nar af hvide? – Og spørgsmålet til “Dokumentations- og Rådgivningscentret om Racediskrimination” lyder: “kender I begrebet humor…?”

Ikke mere israelsk teknologi til islamisterne i Tyrkiet

Arkiveret i: Politik — trumfes @ 17:15

Israel har – omsider – standset al overførsel af teknologi til Tyrkiet

I mange år har Tyrkiet og Israel haft særdeles godt handelsmæssigt og militært samarbejde.
Det er nu desværre ophørt efter at islamisterne vandt valget i 2002 og har bestemt sig for at genere Israel og vesten mest muligt .

Israel har bl.a. solgt UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) = spionfly til Tyrkiet.
Tyrkiet har også for 7 år siden bestilt 10 af et af Israels bedste Spionfly – Heron – afbildet foroven. Denne handel er blevet forsinket pga den tyrkiske sensor, der skulle sættes i.
Nu står de leverede Heron’er ubrugelige og venter på tyrkisk teknologi.
Og den skal de nu sætte i uden israelsk hjælp.

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Islamisering fører til Nazislam

Islamisering af München

‘The gates of Vienna’ er ved at falde – Wien er ved at blive en tyrkisk koloni

Ham her går dine skattekroner også til

Latma TV

Arkiveret i: Antisemitisme, Israel, Jihad, Medier DR m.fl., Muslim World, Palæstina - Libanon — Tags: — Hodja @ 11:02

Bruce Bawer på FrontPage om de perverterede norske medier

‘Urinegate’ Spurs Anti-American Hysterics

Anti-Americanism is, of course, as European as Apfelstrudel.  But over the last few years it’s rollercoastered like the stock market.  The invasion of Iraq sent it skyrocketing.  It was muted somewhat by the election of a black man as President of the United States.  (That Americans, whom Europeans are taught to think of as incurable racists, had done such a thing rendered some veteran America-bashers temporarily mute.)  But European anti-Americanism has never entirely gone away, and the troubles America has been through of late have been the occasion for much Schadenfreude, especially given that they’ve provided a pleasant distraction from Europe’s own even more formidable problems.

Still, it wasn’t until I ran across an article the other day in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that I realized European anti-Americanism, thanks to Urinegate, is once again in full bloom.  The article, written by somebody named Asbjørn Svarstad, begins by noting that the American soldiers who filmed themselves urinating on dead Taliban members may not be the first GIs to have behaved in such a manner.  “American commandos who were dropped over Snåsa [in northern Norway] toward the end of World War II,” writes Asbjørn Svarstad, “are suspected of having displayed the same kind of contempt for their enemies.”

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The invention of Islamophobia

Islamophobia was invented to silence those Muslims who question the Koran and who demand equality of the sexes. By Pascal Bruckner

The term “Islamophobia” serves a number of functions: it denies the reality of an Islamic offensive in Europe all the better to justify it; it attacks secularism by equating it with fundamentalism. Above all, however, it wants to silence all those Muslims who question the Koran, who demand equality of the sexes, who claim the right to renounce religion, and who want to practice their faith freely and without submitting to the dictates of the bearded and doctrinaire. It follows that young girls are stigmatised for not wearing the veil, as are French, German or English citizens of Maghribi, Turkish, African or Algerian origin who demand the right to religious indifference, the right not to believe in God, the right not to fast during Ramadan. Fingers are pointed at these renegades, they are delivered up to the wrath of their religions communities in order to quash all hope of change among the followers of the Prophet.

On a global scale, we are abetting the construction of a new thought crime, one which is strongly reminiscent of the way the Soviet Union dealt with the “enemies of the people”. And our media and politicians are giving it their blessing. Did not the French president himself, never one to miss a blunder – not compare Islamophobia with Antisemitism? A tragic error. Racism attacks people for what they are: black, Arab, Jewish, white. The critical mind on the other hand undermines revealed truths and subjects the scriptures to exegesis and transformation. To confuse the two is to shift religious questions from an intellectual to a judicial level. Every objection, every joke becomes a crime.

Mere her.

27. januar: Holocaust Memorial Day

“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

26 januar 2012

Det norske justitsministerium ønsker ikke at støtte sikkerheden for norske jøder

Israel har bedt om styrket sikkerhet rundt jødiske mål i Europa i kjølvannet av Iran-krisen.

Samtidig har den norske regjeringen avslått å støtte sikkerhetstiltak rundt synagogen i Oslo.

[...]

Hver gang det skjer noe i Midtøsten opplever vi at trusselnivået rundt synagogen, og andre jødiske mål, øker. Samtidig føler vi at truslene blir fullstendig neglisjert av norske myndigheter, sier Forstander i Det mosaiske trossamfunn i Oslo, Ervin Kohn.

Australia Day

Arkiveret i: Australien, Demografi, Musik — Skjoldungen @ 23:29

Vi slutter denne dag med en sang fra et sted, hvor det endnu er tilladt at være stolt af sit land.

 

Michael Coren interviewer Nigel Farage

Arkiveret i: EUSSR, Totalitære, UK — Tags: — Skjoldungen @ 20:38

Alt hvad han siger om UK gælder også Danmark. Og så er han så vidunderligt optimistisk…!

 

1 år efter det “arabiske forår”

Arabisk forår – Islam eller demokrati?

 

En anonym amerikaners syn på Europa

Arkiveret i: Bloggere, Blogs Foreign English, Demografi, Dhimmier, Diverse, Europa, Jernhesten — Jernhesten @ 17:56

Han forklarer hvorfor han støtter “højre” partier i Europa.  Keder man sig, kan man læne sig tilbage i sofaen og høre 6 minutter med en hel del sund fornuft.

 

 

 

 

Kunne vore drenge i Afghanistan ikke bruge sådan en ?

Arkiveret i: Israel, TrumfEs — Tags: — trumfes @ 17:50

Den israelske hær har nu rådighed over en lille “bærbar” drone

Dronen, Skylark I-LE, er en lille og vejer så lidt at een mand kan bære den.
Den kan samles på 8 minutter og giver tre timers live video-feed, både om dagen og natten og er stille som en mus.
Den er allerede anskaffet af Canada og andre lande.

Hvorfor anskaffer den danske hær ikke nogle til at hjælpe vore drenge i Afghanistan ?
Den må da kunne bruges til at overvåge steder, hvor terroristerne planter bomber.

Rødt lys: Før-kriminalitets teknik

Arkiveret i: Kriminalitet, Kulturberigelse, Teknologi, USA/Canada — Hodja @ 12:22

Ny bog om “Samarbejds-Politiken”

Arkiveret i: Bøger, Danmark, Journalister, Loonies, Nazislam, Politiken, Stampisme, Tonen, Venstrefløjen — Tags: — Skjoldungen @ 11:56

Ole Hasselbalch har skrevet en bog om friske ekskrementer fra nødtørftshuset på Råddenhuspladsen.

Trykkefrihedsselskabet skriver om bogen: “Vi har pressen, og så har vi Politikens Hus. Det dokumenterer Politiken-affæren: Historien om et dagbladsangreb på demokratiet. – Det var kort efter Utøya. Det voldsekstreme autonome kollektiv Redox afleverede stjålne og manipulerede dokumenter om den private forening ”Organisationen” til Politiken. Mens ingen andre medier ville røre dem med en ildtang, kastede Politiken sig over dem med fråde om munden. Ole Hasselbalch afslører i bogen den rystende historie om et dansk dagblad, der tilsidesatte alle presseetiske regler, og sætter den samtidig ind i en historisk ramme, der forklarer, hvorfor en forening som ”Organisationen” overhovedet opstod.”

Og fra forlaget: “Ammunitionen hentede bladet fra det anløbne såkaldte ‘research-kollektiv’ Redox, i forhold til hvilket Politiken optrådte som viderebringer af stjålne og manipulerede data. Forfatteren nagler punkt for punkt Politikens tilsidesættelse af kravene til ordentlig og hæderlig journalistik, ligesom han fortæller mere generelt om forholdene på dette blads redaktion. Ikke overraskende kritiserede Pressenævnet Politiken for at tilsidesætte god presseskik – bl.a. i form af manglende kontrol af historien. Og Datatilsynet har lukket den hjemmeside, hvor Redox offentliggjorde en af Politiken meget berømmet ‘rapport’ om ORG. En hovedkraft i Redox og stjernekilde i Politiken-kampagnen er endvidere sigtet – bl.a. efter terrorparagraffen, og politiet er i færd med at undersøge, om der også er grundlag for at rejse regulære kriminelle sigtelser mod Politiken”.

Bogen kan bestilles HER.

Hr. Solskin Islam

Når solen gik ned, gik den fromme Islam i aktion.

Det bemærkelsesværdige ved nedenstående historie er ikke så meget selve kulturberigelsen som reportagen derom. Almindeligvis anses England som et kamelmulehår foran os, når det gælder islamiseringen, men hvor danske medier ville udelade navn og ethnicitet – for slet ikke at tale om foto – så lider britisk presse ikke af slige barnagtigheder. Hvilket for os at se betyder to ting: 1) en objektiv reportage forhindrer læserne i at drage fejlagtige slutninger ud fra fordomme, og 2) de danske mediers forsøg på at “af-ethnificere” kulturberigere fører til det stik modsatte, nemlig et automatisk islam-stempel på enhver voldsforbrydelse.  Mediernes hidtidige praksis med kun at bringe gerningsmænds navn, ethnicitet og foto når det drejer sig om ikke-muslimer, har givet os et solidt erfaringsgrundlag for just disse fordomme. Og når samme medier om kort tid vedtager helt at udelade blot antydningen af signalementer samt – efter svensk mønster – hvidpixellere eventuelle fotos, så er der frit slag for netop de fordomme medierne hævder at ville bekæmpe.

Evening Standard: “A Muslim who raped women to “teach them a lesson” for being on the streets at night was jailed indefinitely today because of the danger he poses. Sunny Islam, 23, who comes from a strictly religious family, dragged his victims – including a girl of 15 – from the street at knifepoint and bound and assaulted them during a two month period near his Barking home. Police fear that Islam, who was jailed today for raping four women, may have attacked many more. Judge Patricia Lees said: “The harm you have done to your victims is incalculable.”

He grabbed the 15-year-old and drove to a secluded spot where he raped her twice despite her claiming she was only 11. She was in court and smiled as he was jailed. In a victim impact statement she said: “No one will ever understand the flashbacks, they are so real it is like I am there.” After his arrest Islam’s DNA was linked with three other attacks, Woolwich crown court heard. He was convicted of seven charges of rape, one of sex assault and one of kidnap.”

Man bemærker ligeledes, at aviserne her – for vistnok første gang – omtaler forbryderen som “Muslim” i stedet for det hidtidige, men aldeles intetsigende udtryk “Asian”. En tanketorsk eller tegn på begyndende selvransagelse? – Har “asiater” som f.eks. indere, kinesere, vietnamesere og japanere fået nok af journalisternes skyden med spredehagl og protesteret…?

25 januar 2012

‘Segmentet’ går i ekkokammer

Den Politiske Korrektheds Troessamfund vil registrere menighedens navne, adresser og CPR-numre.

Det kontroversielle, venstrekstremistiske dasblad, Samarbejds-Politiken, vil sætte fut i debatten. Nu ved vi ikke lige præcist hvad de lækre drenge M/K som cruiser i de overjordiske afdelinger af Råddenhuspladsens underjordiske aftrædelsesfacilitet forstår ved “fut”, men vi har da en anelse. Eller måske snarere en analelse, når man tager tryksagens sædvanlige indhold i betragtning. Men vi fortaber os… Begrebet “fut” leder derimod vore tanker hen på det, som vi her på havnen kalder futmælksmatroser. At det ikke er helt ved siden af, fremgår af det følgende OPROP, som i dag kan læses på nettet og hvorefter obsternasige debattører haver sig at rette:

“I dag lancerer politiken.dk et helt nyt kommentarsystem, der skal fremme den seriøse netdebat og sætte en stopper for useriøse brugere, der skriver under pseudonym. For at deltage i debatten skal man oprette en profil med sit fulde navn, sin adresse og sin fødselsdato. Personoplysningerne valideres via et tjek i cpr-registret, hvorefter fuldt navn og by vil ledsage skribentens fremtidige kommentarer. Det nye kommentarsystem skal sikre, at alle debattører fremover fægter med åben pande og står ved deres holdninger med eget navn på politiken.dk, fortæller Politikens ansvarshavende chefredaktør, Bo Lidegaard. »Det er helt afgørende for en sober demokratisk debat, at vi ved, hvem vi diskuterer med. Sådan har det været i avisen i mere end 100 år, og sådan bliver det nu på politiken.dk. Nu er det slut med skribenter, der ikke vil stå til ansvar for deres holdninger«, siger Bo Lidegaard. – Kommentarsystemet indføres som led i en større relancering af hele politiken.dk’s debatunivers, der også indebærer indkøring af en række nye stærke debattører, der kan sætte fut i debatten på politiken.dk.”

Ser man det, ser man det…”stærke debattører”…Hva’ba…? – Tør vi gå ud fra, at tryksagens censorer har ladet nogle tankeforbrydere slippe igennem, inden man nåede at ausradiere deres kommentarer? – Og at disse endda viste sig at være anonyme, idet de ikke var specielt begejstrede for at blive afhentet af Gestampo og få deres hjem, bil og familie vandaliseret af AFAscisterne? – Hvis det er tilfældet, så kan man nu spare disse censorer væk, idet sådant ej længere vil forekomme. Og skulle en eller anden stærk – men utilladelig naïv – debattør alligevel melde sig ind i “debatuniverset”, så ved Zenia og hendes stampister, hvor du bor!

En tilspidset situation

Arkiveret i: Bloggere, Danmark, Jernhesten, Kriminalitet, Trusler, Udvisning, Vold — Jernhesten @ 20:24

Aalborg: Politiet måtte rydde retssal efter tumult da en stor forsamling af kulturberigere gik amok.

Nordjyske.dk: Dommeren måtte på grund af tumult og uro bede politiet om at rydde retssalen for de omkring 20 tilhørere, da der onsdag i byretten i Aalborg blev afsagt dom over fire unge mænd, som var tiltalt for blandt andet vold. Blandt de dømte er den 18-årige mand, som i november stak af fra politiet under en varetægtsfængsling og var på fri fod i knapt en måned. Efter domsafsigelsen måtte politiet, der var mødt massivt op ved byretten, benytte hunde for at få ryddet porten indtil rettens gård i Badehusvej. Den var blokeret af omkring 30 tilhørere, da en af de dømte skulle køres tilbage til varetægtsfængsling. – Det er mange år siden, at situationen i byretten har været så tilspidset, oplyser vagtchef Frank Liltorp, Nordjyllands Politi. Der var omkring 20 tilhørere mødt op til retssalen, og en del andre var blevet afvist. Derfor ventede lige så mange uden for retssalen. Under domsafsigelsen tog en af tilhørerne en stol og kylede den hen ad gulvet. Han blev derfor ført ud af retssalen, men det dæmpede ikke uroen. Tværtimod, oplyser Frank Liltorp. Derfor blev retssalen ryddet for tilhørere. – Uden for måtte vi foretage to anholdelser og sætte hunde ind, da de fremmødte blokerede porten, men ingen blev bidt, siger Frank Liltorp. I retssalen blev den 18-årige tidligere flugtfange idømt 11 måneders fængsel samt betinget udvisning for flere tilfælde af vold. Det betyder, at han udvises fra Danmark, såfremt han begår kriminalitet inden for de to års prøvetid, oplyser anklager Susanne Hansen.

Nordjyske nævner ikke denne gang er den dømte er tyrkeren Cenk Firat Kirat, – det kan selv finde ud af det ved at søge lidt i arkivet.

Copy/Paste President Obama er STOR tilhænger af genbrug

Arkiveret i: Barack Hussein Obama, TrumfEs, USA/Canada — Tags: — trumfes @ 16:08

Han gør i alt fald meget brug af tidligere års “State of the Union” !

Det ville vel også være svært for ham at fortælle hvad han har brugt det sidste år på,
udover at få styrtet alle pro-vestlige arabiske regimer og spillet golf.

Hvis du vil læse hans tale, kan du finde den her

De er ikke helt ved siden af :)

Arkiveret i: Muslim World, TrumfEs — trumfes @ 15:49

Disse observationer af Jan Nielsen er fundet på Facebook

og taget Uriasposten

The Muslims are not happy!
They’re not happy in Gaza .
They’re not happy in Egypt .
They’re not happy in Libya .
They’re not happy in Morocco.
They’re not happy in Iran .
They’re not happy in Iraq .
They’re not happy in Yemen .
They’re not happy in Afghanistan.
They’re not happy in Pakistan.
They’re not happy in Syria .
They’re not happy in Lebanon.

So, where are they happy?

They’re happy in Canada.
They’re happy in Australia.
They’re happy in England.
They’re happy in France.
They’re happy in Italy.
They’re happy in Germany.
They’re happy in Sweden.
They’re happy in the USA.
They’re happy in Norway.
They’re happy in every country that is not Muslim.

And who do they blame?
Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.

THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!
AND THEY WANT TO CHANGE THEM TO BE LIKE THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM . .
WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY.

Der er en hel del sandhed i betragtningerne :)

24 januar 2012

Blodskam

Konsekvenserne af det udbredte indgifteri blandt muslimer.

Den britiske TV-station Channel4 er kendt for dybdeborende “Dispatches”-programmer – såsom Undercover Mosque, Inside Britain’s Islamic Republic og den nedenstående When Cousins Marry. Programmer der aldrig vil blive vist på dansk TV. Om det sidste skriver man: “Dispatches reveals the tragic consequences of these relationships. First cousin marriages cause hundreds of children to be born with terrible disabilities in Britain every year; one third of whom are so ill that they die before they are five years old.

The practice is most common in Britain’s Pakistani community, in which more than 50% of people marry their first cousin, and in Bradford 75% of ethnic Pakistanis follow the tradition. It is also common in some Middle Eastern and East African communities here, and in the UK’s Bangladeshi community, nearly a quarter of people marry their first cousins. But the practice isn’t uncommon in the white British community either: this documentary features a couple, first-cousins-once-removed, whose daughter died of a genetic disease. The medical risks include infant mortality, birth defects, learning difficulties, blindness, hearing impairment and metabolic disorders. As adults, the offspring of these relationships also risk sporadic abortions or infertility.

Reporter Tazeen Ahmad meets affected families, including one with three children with serious degenerative genetic diseases. Tazeen’s own grandparents were first cousins: five of their children died before the age of ten, and three of her uncles were deaf. Dispatches questions why no major national publicity campaign warns of these health risks. At-risk couples in some areas are offered genetic counselling, with some being offered selection of embryos or terminations, but as only 40% of recessive disorders can be medically tested for, this is of limited use.

Even talking about the practice is controversial. And, although many British studies have established the risks, people still deny the dangers and extol the benefits of marrying within the family. But others within the community say the risks should be publicised.”

Med tak til Kitman TV

Kvik violinist reagerer på irriterende mobiltelefonopkald

Arkiveret i: TrumfEs — trumfes @ 19:53

I synagogen i Preslov, Skovakia viste violinisten Lukáš Kmiť stor opfindsomhed, da han blev afbrudt af en mobiltelefon

Det sker ca 37 sekunder inde i videoen:

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