There seems to be an alarming rate of intermarriage in the Middle East; it is only less than 1% of marriage between cousins in the US, Europe, Russia and Australia according to a 2008 research.
Although marriage between relatives is seen as very much unpleasant and offensive to many, it has actually been a normal practice in other cultures for millenniums.
Unfortunately, there are already scientific evidence and researches proven that children born to parents from the related ones, extended or not, face a greater risk of enrooting a wide range of health problems. In short, there aren't new genes being added to the family inside one's body.
In addiction to the unhealthy ratings, some of the middle east countries and a number of African and Asian countries are too in the list of the world’s highest ranks of birth defects.
Khalid bin Jabor al-Thani, the chairman of Qatar’s cancer society and former deputy director of its national health authority, said that intermarriages are tolerated as the product of “tribal traditions”.
“The tolerance comes from people who used to live in very remote areas and tribes would always want to keep their blood within the family and not go outside," he said.
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