Le Pen sees votes in Islamism fight

Marine Le Pen has promised to defend France from creeping ''Islamisation'' just weeks before she is expected to take over from her father as head of the National Front party.
The 42-year-old is seen as a serious threat to the President, Nicolas Sarkozy, if chosen to succeed Jean-Marie Le Pen, 82, at the party congress on January 15-16.
''The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation,'' she said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
''We are fighting against Islamism, not Islam. Islamism is the will to impose sharia for all as civil, political and religious law. We Western societies are fighting against Islamism all around the world. We have sent our kids to Afghanistan to be killed to fight against Islamism, and we don't have the right in France - through words and political action - to fight it? That seems totally absurd to me.'' Read more.