Thread: Brigitte Bardot convicted of provoking discrimination

June 3, 2008, 12:05PM
Brigitte Bardot convicted of provoking discrimination


Associated Press


PARIS — Brigitte Bardot was convicted today of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.

A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.

Bardot's lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal.

A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation's quarterly journal.

In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts."

Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.

French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.

"She is tired of this type of proceedings," he said. "She has the impression that people want to silence her. She will not be silenced in her defense of animal rights."


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5815936.html

How in the hell do you "provoke discrimination?" I guess being critical and asking questions is now considered "discrimination" in France.

Not good...

Well i guess i have one supporter in my hate and distrust of the NWO/EU.That would be Ms.Bardot . Sad World when you can't stand up for Right because Wrong says it's Wrong . Sick

It’s interesting to note that Ms. Bardot's comments against Muslims in France are punishable; yet, the Muslims in several European countries can carry signs and speak out against the countries they are in, threatening to take over that country and the world... and those openly offensive Muslims are not accused of racism and go unpunished! Such are conditions in the Socialist oriented European Union.

What does this have to do with us? Hello? Because of the Illegal Aliens, we are now having May Day marches in this country with people carrying signs against America, with people who are not even citizens in this country claiming that this land is theirs, that they will take it back and take it over! They claim that anyone who speaks out against their actions are racist; and yet, they and their supporting groups like La Raza get away with issuing vitriolic verbal and literal racist diatribes against Americans while supporting Socialist and Marxist groups stand by the Illegals and their so-called “rights!â€

Background article

Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam?

April 15, 2008
By BRUCE CRUMLEY/PARIS
Time Magazine

She may be better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum. Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two-month suspended sentence.

"I'm a bit tired of trying Madame Bardot," admitted assistant prosecutor Anne de Fonette, as she urged the court to impose "the most striking and remarkable" punishment in the case. A verdict is expected on June 3.

The current charge against Bardot was lodged by the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose rising popularity was based in part on his hard line on immigration and tough stand against troublesome youths from immigrant backgrounds.

Lawyers for the 73-year-old Bardot, who did not attend the trial, argued the offending sections of the letter had been taken out of the context of her militant defense of animal rights over the years, a cause in support of which she has raised and spent millions of dollars. Her work in the area has been hailed by French political leaders and organizations around the world, although more recently French courts have interpreted some of her statements as Islamophobia.

Bardot's defense Tuesday was that her passionate denunciation of the ritual slaughter of Eid-al-Kabir had been misinterpreted as an attack on Islam in France. A similar defense had failed to spare her from conviction in four earlier trials. In 1997, for example, Bardot was first convicted on the charge of "inciting racial hatred" for her open letter to French daily Le Figaro, complaining of "foreign over-population", mostly by Muslim families.

The following year she was convicted anew for decrying the loss of French identity and tradition due to the multiplication of mosques "while our church bells fall silent for want of priests." Darkening Bardot's public image in both cases was her marriage to an active supporter and political ally of French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

In 2000, Bardot was again convicted — this time for comments in her book Pluto's Square, whose chapter "Open Letter to My Lost France" grieved for "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims." And in 2004, another Bardot book, A Cry In the Silence, again took up the question of immigration and Islam — ultimately running afoul of anti-racism laws by generally associating Islam with the 9/11 terror attacks, and denouncing the "Islamization of France" by people she described as "invaders".

The prosecution has called for the harshest possible punishment in the hope of getting through to Bardot the seriousness of her transgressions of French law. MRAP implored the judge to "take note of this refusal by (Bardot) to learn the lessons of previous convictions and cease using racist language". The court will make its decision by June, although the repeat convictions on similar charges suggest that Bardot has not exactly been chastened by previous court rulings.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... full-world

This story is related to immigration and illegal immigration. Moving to the ALIPAC News section, out of Other Topics.

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Both articles added to the top of the homepage with new title and note


Freedom Falls in France: Bardot Convicted for Speaking out on Immigration!

ALIPAC Note: Americans can expect the same kind of laws if the North American Union comes into being.

http://www.alipac.us/article3247.html

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I would like to see the article she wrote. Some of these animal activists are out there man.