"...law based on sharia is inevitably a restriction on freedom, especially freedom of conscience.”

Spoken in truth, but inevitably Jeanette Bougrab will face the consequences of her words. A French minister of Arab/Algerian descent, she is in a unique position of being wholly French and understanding of Arab/Islamic dogma by virtue of birth. I admire her greatly for speaking the truth, I worry that she is now a target, and may suffer the same fate as Van Gogh or Orianna Fallaci. You just never know when the religion of peace will deliver it's deadly bouquet of jihad.

From Al Arabiya December 4

A French minister of Arab origin says ‘there is no such thing as moderate Islam’

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.”

“It’s very worrying,” she was quoted as saying. “I don’t know of any moderate Islam.”

“There are no half measures with sharia,” she added. “I am a lawyer and you can make all the theological, literal or fundamental interpretations of it that you like but law based on sharia is inevitably a restriction on freedom, especially freedom of conscience.”

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.

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