Pakistanis tell Greece to allow cousin marriage: The consanguineous invasion

Just when you thought the West had exhausted its pool of civilisational surrenders, a new frontier of absurdity opens. In Athens, Javed Aslam, the leader of the Pakistani community in Greece, has publicly demanded that the Greek state legalises marriage between cousins — first ones included. His reasoning? That the Greek law is “discriminatory” because it denies his community the right to practice a tradition that is a cornerstone of their homeland’s social structure.

This is not the time to mince words: This is not a request for “inclusion”. It is a rally for the dismantling of European secular law to accommodate a medieval, theocratic social structure. It is the latest attempt by an Islamist lobby to assert that the “rights” of the migrants supersede the laws, the biological science, and the sanity of the host nations.

The facts behind this matter are undeniable. In Islam, particularly within the Hanafi school prevalent in Pakistan, marriage between first cousins is not only permitted but encouraged. It is a system designed to keep land, wealth, and “tribal purity” within the clan. In Pakistan, this has resulted in a staggering reality where nearly 70 per cent of all marriages are consanguineous.  

But Greece is not the Punjab. The Greek Civil Code, under Article 1356, explicitly prohibits marriage between collateral relatives up to the fourth degree. This is not intolerance, it is a safeguard rooted in centuries of Western social evolution and modern genetic science. We moved away from the tribal clan model because the nuclear family and the protection of the gene pool became conditions of a healthy, advancing society.

This is not just a Greek headache. In fact, it is becoming a European wildfire. Across the continent, nations that once prided themselves on “multicultural tolerance” are hitting the breaking point. In Norway, as of January 2025, the government has officially banned first-cousin marriage specifically to combat the epidemic of forced marriages within migrant communities. Denmark is following suit with a draft bill expected to take effect in July 2026. These nations are finally realising that you cannot maintain a modern democracy on a foundation of tribalism.  

The consequences of ignoring science are already visible in the United Kingdom, serving as a grim laboratory for what happens when multiculturalism overshadows medicine. In Britain, while the Pakistani community accounts for roughly 3.4 per cent of births, they represent nearly 30 per cent of all children born with recessive genetic disorders. We are talking about preventable blindness, deafness, and complex neurological failures — a massive, avoidable burden on the national health system, all sacrificed on the altar of alleged cultural sensitivity.

Yet, the “woke” progressives in our universities and NGOs will likely view Aslam’s demand as a legitimate expression of identity. They will argue that to deny a cousin-marriage is a form of Islamophobia. This is the suicidal logic of the modern liberals and leftists: They will defend a practice that causes profound physical suffering to children and produces helpless people simply to avoid being called “racist”. They are effectively siding with a pre-modern worldview against the very Enlightenment values they claim to cherish.

This is the true face of the Islamist challenge. They do not come here to join our ranks and civilisation. They come to transplant their own, piece by piece. First, it is the demand for prayers in public squares. Then prayer-rooms everywhere. Then, a spectrum of “sharia-compliant” issues. Now, it is the right to marry their own kin. If the Greek — or any European — state gives an inch on this, it will not be a legal matter, but an admission that the soul of our republics equals to temporary documents that can be edited by any group that screams loud enough about who they are.

It appears absurd and other worldly, but we need to fight for our very existential pillars on a social, cultural, genetic and legal level. If we allow the legalisation of consanguinity, we will be effectively consenting to the “Pakistanisation” of the European demography. We will be allowing the tribal clan to replace the citizen. No. Our laws are the result of a hard-fought journey toward reason, health, and individual liberty. 

We do not owe these invaders a single concession. If Javed Aslam finds the Greek Civil Code too restrictive, the solution is simple: Our borders remain open in both directions. In Europe, we look forward to the future of our children, not backward to the tribalism of the 7th century Middle East. Our kind of family is the sacred cornerstone of the Western consciousness — and it does not include marrying your cousins.