Posted on 11/18/2005 2:06:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
PARIS, Nov. 17 - In the search for explanations for the riots that have rocked France, some politicians and intellectuals are pointing to a novel one: polygamy.
In an interview with RTL radio on Wednesday, Bernard Accoyer, the parliamentary leader of President Jacques Chirac's Gaullist party, the Union for a Popular Movement, called polygamy "certainly one of the causes, though not the only one" for France's worst unrest in four decades. He blamed the former Socialist government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for being "strangely lax" in enforcing the ban on polygamy. Pierre Cardo, a deputy in Parliament from Mr. Chirac's party, said that the most difficult juvenile delinquents were "often products of polygamous families."
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, one of the country's most eminent historians and the permanent secretary of the Académie Française, was even more pointed. "Everyone is astonished; why are African children in the streets and not at school?" she said on Russian television in Moscow on Sunday. "Why can't their parents buy an apartment? It's clear why. Many of these Africans, I tell you, are polygamous. In an apartment, there are three or four wives and 25 children." Even the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has suggested that polygamy makes it harder for North African Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans to integrate into French life.
"There are more problems for a child of an immigrant of black Africa or of North Africa than for a son of a Swede, a Dane or a Hungarian," said Mr. Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian father, in an interview with France 2 television on Nov. 10. "Because culture, because polygamy, because social origins contribute to more hardships for him."
The remarks have set off an uproar in France and charges of racism.
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If pointing out the activity or practices that result in poverty, ignorance or unemployment of Blacks is racism -- then I'm a racist...
France has invited and subsidized the lowest form of immigrant possible.......
Morons that believe they are entitled to retain their non-competitive behavior and have someone else support them -- while they copulate and populate on welfare!
Deport the bastards, quickly.
Semper Fi
There's a lot of squirming going on in France.
The French have put their house in order or lose their nation in 2 generations.
Looks like they're facing up to the internal threat of Islam. Polygamy is just one of their barbarous practices.
Polygamy creates serious social problems.
Especially when coupled with brutality of women.
Young males raised to be brutes, with remote or absent fathers, are ticking time bombs.
Bump!
If pointing out the activity or practices that result in poverty, ignorance or unemployment of Blacks is racism -- then I'm a racist...==
Accually any critic thoughts about any particular group or race may be called "racism" or for example "antisemitism"
because criticism is always deminish object.
IMO it is propagadistic wear of terminology.
The example from other area. Any attack in Iraq they call now a "terrorism". But according to definition the terrorism is just attack on civilians.
But they call now terrorism the attack on police and military too.
According definition the "racism" is just belittling other race and same time superbing own.
But today any critical opinion on group is racism. So you simply cann't critisize no group anymore.
The only factor in France's unrest is Islam.
I don't see how this is an idealogical difference for France? I would think that if gay marriage goes anything goes.
I don't see how this is an idealogical difference for France? I would think that if gay marriage goes anything goes.
I don't see how laws against polygamy will help these socialist. These women will get a so called divorce and be single mothers which they are now. France will then have to give them all separate apartments. France doesn't want to pay for that.
"...are ticking time bombs..."
Literally!
can you think of any behavior which is not a social problem "especially when coupled with brutality of women?"
Shouldn't they be celebrating their diversity?
Raising boys to brutalize and murder their mothers, sisters, and daughters is not just a cutsey little behavior to be ridiculed.
It is a core problem of the demonic behavior of islamofascists.
the poster made no correlation to polygamy and that was my point. Thanx for the rant anyway.
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