Brigitte Bardot Vs. Muslims
April 17th, 2008 by Andre Soares
Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims.
No, Bardot’s animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, just doesn’t like Muslims, period.
She’s now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for "inciting racial hatred" due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam and its followers, five million of whom live in France. (Free speech laws in France are clearly less encompassing than in some other countries.) French anti-racist groups filed a complaint following comments Bardot made about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, in which a sheep is usually sacrificed, in a letter to right-wing French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
The letter, in which she wrote she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts," was later published by her foundation. (Similar remarks — some so vicious they were deleted — were sent to the Alternative Film Guide in response to several posts criticizing the anti-Islam short film Fitna.)
Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old (bad) actress a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euro (approx. US$23,000).
Bardot did not attend the trial claiming illness. A verdict is expected in several weeks.
Brigitte Bardot, by the way, is not just an anti-Muslim bigot. She has also attacked gays, immigrants, and the unemployed. But not all is lost. She is supposed to love animals — though she can’t blame this on France’s Muslims.
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