Dum Pendebat Filius

You simply couldn’t make this stuff up. FrontPageMag.com is the wingnuttiest site in the world. Look at this lunacy:

Rooted in ancient custom, consanguinity is nonetheless widespread in the Arab world; for example, a 1989 study in Iraq found 53 percent of the subjects to be consanguineously married. One result is the prevalence of extended clans that lead to nepotism and lower levels of identification with the state. The clan structure is a major factor in the Arab world’s endemic corruption and lack of civil society.

But if, as the Israeli study highlights, inbreeding is also a major cause of disease, another conclusion seems inescapable. Just as modern medicine recognizes genetic sources of many physical illnesses, modern psychology recognizes genetic components in many psychological problems including criminality. Presumably, a region where inbreeding is rife—and reinforced through successive generations—should also have a greater frequency of such mental ailments. Though, not surprisingly, there seem to have been no studies in that regard given the delicacy of the subject, the high levels of social pathology, violence, and terrorism in the Arab world suggest that inbreeding is one of the causes.

Yes, that’s for real. It’s from a brief piece entitled “Inbreeding and the Arab World’s Pathologies.” See, the reason those Arabs are so crazy and all, living under medieval theocracies or nepotistic dictatorships, setting off bombs and blowing shit up, is on account of they’re inbred.

Such observations are not, of course, comfortable because they are likely to inspire absurd charges of racism.

Yeah, that would be pretty absurd, wouldn’t it. I’m telling you, you couldn’t invent this kind of craziness.