Thursday, November 17, 2005

French Polygamy Gets A Mention By the New York Times

The New York Times reports:
In the search for explanations for the riots that have rocked France, some politicians and intellectuals are pointing to a novel one: polygamy.

The head of President Jacques Chirac's UMP party in the national assembly, Bernard Accoyer, called polygamy "certainly one of the causes, though not the only one" for France's worst urban unrest in four decades.

Speaking in an interview with RTL radio on Wednesday, he blamed the Socialist government of the former prime minister, Lionel Jospin - in power from 1997 until 2002 - for being "strangely lax" in not enforcing the law banning the practice.
Generally,the establishment media blames most problems on PID:poverty,ignorance,and disease.The answer from places like the Times is always more taxpayer dollars.Is the Times broadening their horizons?