Some are very rare and, hitherto, unknown in Britain. Bradford’s St Luke’s Hospital has seen an extraordinary rise in the number of different types of genetic disorders. Meanwhile, the city’s special schools struggle to cope with huge numbers of pupils with learning difficulties.
Shocking: The practice of inter-marriage within Muslim communities is leading to some children being born with a raft of genetic diseases It is no surprise therefore that more than six per cent of children in Bradford have health defects, with paediatric wards looking after countless children, including teenagers lying in nappies who are unable to speak and are fed through a tube. If you go into a paediatric ward in Bradford or Keighley, you will find more than half the kids are from the Asian community,’ she said. Critic: Keighley MP Anne Cryer has condemned first-cousin marriages ‘It is not fair to the children or to the NHS which has to treat them. This week, leading geneticist Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, warned that ‘inbreeding’ in Islamic communities was threatening the health of generations of children. ‘This highlights a cultural and religious issue relating to first-cousin marriages and the potential risk to children that some medical experts say can result from such unions.' He said: ‘This highlights a cultural and religious issue relating to first-cousin marriages and the potential risk to children that some medical experts say can result from such unions.’ The coroner chose his words carefully, since he was addressing one of the most controversial - and taboo - subjects in multi-cultural Britain: marriage between cousins in the Muslim communities which has left hundreds, if not thousands, of children damaged or dead.
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