French Employment Minister: Riots not due to racism, but to polygamists

You see, says the minister, the problem could be that the large, polygamous families these people come from leads to a lack of a father figure and, thus, anti-social behavior and riots. How does he know? Well, it seems he once knew personally of a youth who was arrested -- arrested, see --- and it later turned out that he came from a polygamous family. So you see, no racism here, he says, it's because of these teeming masses of polygamous families. An aide -- who refused to be named -- later said polygamy was not the overwhelming cause of the riots.

Holy bejeezus fuck. This guy is their employment minister .