As has been widely reported throughout the world, there is currently an "immigration" problem in France. By the looks of it, the wave of muslim immigrants from North Africa didn't integrate well within the rest of French society, of a variety of reasons I won't get into here (plus, no-one really agrees on the subjet anyway).
I was watching a debate on the subject on TV a few days ago. Something that really bothered me was the general attitude everyone had of putting polyygamy and forced marriages in the same bag of barbaric practices. In particular Elisabeth Badinter, a French feminist philosopher, just didn't seem able to pronounce one without the other in the same sentence.
What disturbs me is that there is no reason to even compare them. Polygamy remains in the realm of how individuals want to live their lives. If two women find it acceptable to share the same man, it should be nobody's business to judge them. Being "against polygamy" really is the same as being "against homosexuality": you can have a moral or personal opinion about it, and there is a real question of whether society should recognise such unions on par with "standard" marriage, but in the end it shouldn't be up to the law to say whether such relationships should be banned or not.
Forced marriages, on the other hand, are clearly violating people's freedoms and should of course be judged as such.