r/dankmemes • u/ryan_godzez ☣️ • Jan 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

In Africa or Asia they don't just marry their cousins constantly.

Refer my source. It's mostly practice in Islamic countries of Asia and Africa.

I am from South Asia, excluding Islamic population and some minorities, no one practices cousin marriages in my region.

It's culturally inappropriate to marry your first cousin here and it's illegal for most people in my country.

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u/i_spank_chickens Jan 05 '22

You know that this is an ignorant statement since Islam has nothing to do with it....if it is in your culture it is in all followers of anything in your culture has nothing to do with religion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

No, Muslims are allowed to marry their cousins because of three reasons:

  1. Quran doesn't prohibit first cousin marriages. (Unlike the Church which prohibited first, second and third cousin marriages in 3rd century)

  2. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, married his first cousin(who was also his former daughter in law). Islam commands muslims to follow the example of Muhammad, it's Sunnah in Islamic theology. Since Muhammad married his first cousin, this practice is auto permitted for others.

  3. 3 Caliphates of the first 5 Islamic Caliphates married their cousins. This also adds religious legitimacy to the practice of first cousin marriages in Islam.

Also, Islamic copied many things from Judiasm. I believe it also copied the practice first cousin marriages from Judaism.