Al Arabia.net
Saturday, 03 December 2011
Paris
A French minister said there was no such thing as moderate Islam, calling recent election successes by Islamic parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia “worrying” in an interview published Saturday.
Jeannette Bougrab, a junior minister with responsibility for youth, told Le Parisien newspaper that legislation based on Islamic sharia law “inevitably” imposed restrictions on rights and freedoms.
Bougrab is of Algerian origin, whose father fought on the French colonial side during Algeria’s war of independence, and said she was speaking as “a French woman of Arab origin.”
She was reacting to electoral successes scored by the Ennahda party in Tunisia, the Justice and Development Party in Morocco and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has called for dialogue with such parties as long as they respect certain criteria, including the rule of law and women’s rights.
Bougrab conceded that ousted Tunisian and Egyptian rulers Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak had used the Islamist “threat” to win backing from Western countries, but she added, “We shouldn’t go to the other extreme.”
And she hit out at the 30 percent of Tunisians living in France who had voted for Ennahda in last month’s polls. “I am shocked that those who have rights and freedoms here gave their votes to a religious party,” she said.
They updated it over at JW. She said, there is no such thing as Moderate “Islamism”
Not Islam. Supposedly. A translation glitch.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/french-minister-of-arab-origin-there-is-no-such-thing-as-moderate-islam.html
She must have had a good talking to, for failing to stick with the narrative.
Instead of moderate/extreme islam.
There should be a headline that says:
“Muslim admits, There is no such thing as concise, clear, and honest in Islam”
I wonder how long it will take before they remove her from office for being honest, after all politicians can’t stand being around honest people.
Richard:
Someone posted an update that she changed what she said from ‘Islam’ to, ‘Islamism’ to better keep with the BS narrative.