A total of 1,085 children of foreign origin are located in special schools for children with retardation or severe learning disabilities across Denmark. ...
“It’s not because I want to discuss race or run any smear campaign. But it’s a little bit strange that in the four special schools, where people sit in a wheelchair and need help with everything, approximately 50 percent have an immigrant background. That, I believe, is the result of a harmful cultural practice,” Lars Aslan Rasmussen (Social Democrats) says. ...
Science partly supports this conclusion explains Karen Brondum-Nielsen, professor and consultant MD. at the Kennedy Center, which conducts research into the genetic causes of disability.
“It is a complicated and politically sore topic. What we know is that there is a slightly increased risk of being born with disabilities for children by cousin-marriages. In Denmark we have not registered these marriages, so we do not have data to prove the relationship. But we can see that there are some groups of the population, which we know give birth to more disabled children, for example, among Pakistanis and Turks. These groups have a tradition of first cousin marriages,” Brondum-Nielsen says.
Source: KD