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| Brigitte Bardot fined for racism |
| 2008-06-03 |
| FRANCE'S 1960s screen icon Brigitte Bardot has received a 15,000 euros ($24,440) fine today for inciting hatred against Muslims. In December 2006, the film star-turned-animal rights activist wrote a letter to France's then interior minister, current President Nicolas Sarkozy, arguing that Muslims should stun animals before slaughtering them during the Aid al-Kabir holiday. She outraged anti-racist groups by saying: "I've had enough of being led by the nose by this whole population which is destroying us, (and) destroying our country by imposing their ways.'' Ms Bardot, now 73 and suffering from arthritis, was absent from today's court hearing in Paris. She wrote to the court saying: "I'm sickened by how (these organisations) are harassing me.'' "I will not shut up until stunning is carried out on animals before their ritual slaughter." Ms Bardot already has four convictions on similar charges. In 2004 she was fined 5,000 euros ($8,145) for inciting racial hatred in her book Un Cri Dans le Silence (A Cry in the Silence). France is home to Europe's largest Muslim community, estimated at five million people. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 I recall seeing "And God Created Woman" when I was in college. Don't ask me what it was about. I understand there was a re-make in 1988 with Rebecca De Mornay--the hooker from Risky Business. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-06-03 19:12 |
| #8 Bardot abruptly ended her film career in 1972 Ummm, I remember her vanishing years before 1972. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-06-03 18:43 |
| #7 Here is an article on BB before the world went crazy on political correctness. France's Bardot Denounces Muslim 'Invasion' (Reuters, 10:28am EDT, 4/26/96) PARIS - Brigitte Bardot, sex icon turned animal rights activist, said Friday she might be forced to emigrate because France had too many Muslim immigrants. Bardot's column in the conservative newspaper Le Figaro denounced immigrants in unusually virulent terms, highlighting her long campaign against the Muslim ritual slaughter of sheep. Labeling herself "a Frenchwoman of old stock," the film star pointed to her grandfather and father's battles against German invaders in two world wars, and to her own rejection of lucrative Hollywood offers during her "cinematic glory." Bardot wrote: "And now my country, France, my homeland, my land, is with the blessing of successive governments again invaded by a foreign, especially Muslim, over-population to which we pay allegiance." "We have to submit against our will to this Muslim overflow. From year to year, we see mosques flourish across France, while our churchbells fall silent because of a lack of priests," added Bardot, who is married to a supporter of the extreme-right National Front which campaigns on an anti-immigrant platform. Bardot, who has given her name and support to an animal protection foundation, repeated in gory prose her condemnation of Muslim heep-slaughtering rituals during the "atrocious" Aid-el-Kebir feast of the sacrifice. "Tens of thousands of poor beasts whose throats are slit...with blades that are more or less sharpened, by clumsy 'sacrificers' who have to repeat their gesture several times, while kids splashed with blood bathe in this magma of terror, of blood squirting from badly-slit jugulars," she wrote. Bardot has in the past attacked the celebration of the feast in France by more than two million Muslims, mostly North African Arab immigrants. Leaders of France's Muslim community have hit back, saying her attack was politically-motivated. After quoting 19th century novelist Emile Zola on the love humans owe to animals, Bardot threatened to go into exile unless authorities acted on her grievances. "Could I be forced in the near future to flee my country which has turned into a bloody and violent country, to turn expatriate, to try and find elsewhere, by myself becoming an emigrant, the respect and esteem which we are alas refused daily?." Three years ago, the screen legend had said that the extreme right-wing views of the man she married in 1992 could cause the break-up of their marriage, her fourth. "I argue with Bernard (d'Ormale), I find the National Front too extremist...I would've been better off falling in love with a shoe salesman," she said. Bardot abruptly ended her film career in 1972 and has since devoted herself nearly full-time to animal welfare causes. |
| Posted by: tipper 2008-06-03 13:58 |
| #6 Notice that Ms Bardot was not complaining that the Muslims kill and threaten to kill people. She, like many animal activists, was more concerned that they did not kill animals "humanely". She is not concerned that Islam is replacing Christianity in Europe, she is concerned that these foreigners are using "primitive" methods to kill animals. Nope, nope, nope, she's quite concerned with that, and has taken some serious flak for having said that open out loud (on teevee, for example), but the animals rights is her angle, because it's her thing, I guess. Note that she's always been quite rightwing, even in her youth, and she's been married to a National Front bigshot; the LGF-aligned Dissident Frogman (who does a great job nonetheless) even had a post a few weeks back, where he said one shouldn't support BB too much, because, well, she was and is a racist. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-06-03 13:10 |
| #5 Correction: Islam is (and always as been) a Political Ideology masquerading as a religion. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-06-03 12:53 |
| #4 Exactly Islam is a religion not a race. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-06-03 12:50 |
| #3 Racism huh? BTW, what “Race” are Muslims again? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-06-03 12:47 |
| #2 Notice that Ms Bardot was not complaining that the Muslims kill and threaten to kill people. She, like many animal activists, was more concerned that they did not kill animals "humanely". She is not concerned that Islam is replacing Christianity in Europe, she is concerned that these foreigners are using "primitive" methods to kill animals. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-06-03 12:40 |
| #1 Bad dhimi! BAD!! Just shut up and pay your tax! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-06-03 12:34 |