Unusually High Number of Pseudohermaphrodites in Gaza Blamed on In-Breeding
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 17, 2009, 9:50 PM
Last year Ola was your average Palestinian girl attending girl’s school and wearing headscarves. Today Ola is struggling with the difficulties of life in Gaza as a boy. Ola cut her hair and began attending boys school this year after it was discovered that she was a male pseudohermaphrodite.
The rare condition is blamed on Gaza in-breeding.
CNN reported:
There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live.
Dr. Jehad Abudaia, a Canadian-Palestinian pediatrician and urologist practicing in Gaza, says he has diagnosed nearly 80 cases like Nadir’s and Ahmed’s in the last seven years.
“It is astonishing that we have [so] many cases with this defect, which is very rare all over the world,” Abudaia says. He attributes the high frequency of this birth defect to “consanguinity,” or in-breeding.
“If you want to go to the root of the problem, this problem runs in families in the genes.” Abudaia says. “They want to get married to cousins… they don’t go to another family. This is a problem.”
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Guillaume Mayer commented:
And all these years they’ve been making jokes about hillbillies.
bg commented:
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another CNN ‘how dumb are we’ test..
they just never give up do they..
the point of that report was
more propaganda vs plight..
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befuddled commented:
newsflash: terrorists are all pus**ys.
Marsh commented:
Arab muslim trash hearts terrorism and incest? What’s new?
Indigo Red commented:
Not just in Gaza are Muslims paying the price of consanguineous pairings (in-breeding). It is a growing problem throughout the Muslim society. Islam was built upon tribal traditions which encouraged at least first cousin marriages in order to maintain clan cohesion and loyalty. A useful side effect of consanguinity is lowered IQ which almost guarantees debilitated questioning of authorities and Allah. Consanguinity has become such a health problem in Saudi Arabia the gov’t has established programs to counter the practice.
http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/212/arab_inbreed/arab_inbreed.htm
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/medinformatic1/saudi_nyt.htm
http://www.isteve.com/cousin_marriage_conundrum.htm
One researcher said that in this one portion of the population, we may be seeing the “devolution” of the species.
BigAlSouth commented:
“Muslim Inbreeding.”
Wow. Whodathunkit.
manateespirit commented:
Well, if they can change into males after having to shield their faces and bodies as females, that is not a bad switch. This should give them freedoms Muslim women will never experience.
I am sorry for these people as individuals. Their society has set them up for these multiple problems. But it MUST be Bush’s fault. They’ll come up with some reasoning.
mrt721 commented:
**V-8 head-slap**
So Rachel Maddow was born in Gaza!
AuntieMadder commented:
So, all of the times that anyone said that the Palestinians can just go screw themselves, they weren’t just talking smack. They meant it literally.
Grace commented:
Is someone moderating comments? This is First Things. We don’t expect vulgarity here. Please.
Chris commented:
My parents are originally from Lebanon and sometimes first and second cousins do get married but not very often. However, Palestinians totally abuse the concept. It’s not just in Gaza. It happens in Jordan and the West Bank.
Let’s see liberal comedians make fun of the Palestinians for this. I’m waiting but I won’t hold my breath.
AuntieMadder commented:
I’m sorry, Grace. I got a little carried away.
If Hoft or whoever keeps an eye on these things opt to delete it, I understand. My bad.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Just another aspect of one of those “things we’re not supposed to talk about.”
Boinking little boys and girls is another favorite Gaza passtime, according to some accounts. I would have thought that a libel, until a Palestinian acquaintance of mine told me about what her ‘uncles’ liked to do to her when she was a child. These kinds of things happen the world over, but not usually with the frequency and pervasiveness of Gaza. We get similar statistics from other Palestinian areas, and the Saudi peninsula.