Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur

Reuters ^ | 04/15/2008 | Thierry Leveque

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PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.

Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts."

Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim traditions and immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.

She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000.

Prosecutor Anne de Fontette told the court she was seeking a tougher sentence than usual, adding: "I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."

Bardot did not attend the trial because she said she was physically unable to. The verdict is expected in several weeks.

French anti-racist groups complained last year about comments Bardot made about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy that was later published by her foundation.

Muslims traditionally mark Eid al-Adha by slaughtering a sheep or another animal to commemorate the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son on God's orders.

France is home to 5 million Muslims, Europe's largest Muslim community, making up 8 percent of France's population.

"I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts," the star of 'And God created woman' and 'Contempt' said.

Bardot has previously said France is being invaded by sheep-slaughtering Muslims and published a book attacking gays, immigrants and the unemployed, in which she also lamented the "Islamisation of France."

[forkinsocket]

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[Puppage]

You tell 'em, baby!!

[snarks_when_bored]

The French knuckling under to muslims...quelle surprise...non!.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

This is ridiculous.

FREE BRIDGET!!!

[gathersnomoss]

She speaks the truth, and the brain police arrest her. How Obama of them.

[Sue Perkick]

Coming soon to a country near you

[JamesP81]

Put on trial for telling the truth about the slow but sure conquest of her country by foreign invaders.

[avacado]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Night Hides Not]

Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts."

So what did Ms. Bardot say that was untrue?

[B Knotts]

No one should ever be imprisoned or fined for what they say. Period.

[LowTaxesEqualProsperity]

You will submit to Islam, or the liberals will punish you for refusing to do so. They are allies in the destruction of freedom.

[AU72]

The lights are going out in Europe.

[netmilsmom]

>>She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000<<

Lord Love her! She’s not backing down!
Good on you!

[Red Badger]

"I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."

YOU'LL GET A WHOLE LOT MORE TIRED OF SHARIA LAW, YOU DIMWIT!................

[Rastus]

Coming soon to America.

[fieldmarshaldj]

She gets it absolutely.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Instead of putting her on trial and fining her, they need to start listening to her.

[garyhope]

Good for her for speaking the truth that the French and “liberals” don’t want to hear.

She’s right and so was Orianna Fallaci.

The French, Europe and “liberals”, socialists and “progressives everywhere are cowards and are committing cultural suicide.

[trappedinnj]

Yikes...I guess I’ll need to put some ducktape in my luggage on next trip to Paris, and keep my mouth shut!! “Inciting Racial Hatred” ....wow , There’s a whole church in Chicago thats in reeeeal trouble.

also.

Absolutely NOT GUILTY in the 60’s and 70’s

A little GUILTY in the 80’s, 90’s....

Today...oh what am I saying
...NOT GUILTY!

[ncfool]

ALLAH the God of fools says OFF WITH HER PRETTY LITTLE HEAD!

When will the west learn that Islam is not our friend.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

So.....bottom line is you can go to prison and get a $24,000 dollar fine in France for not being P.C.? Holy crap!...France bites the big one! If Free Republic was in France, we all would be in chains!

[Revolting cat!]

Looks good for 73!

[TornadoAlley3]

Not Guilty!

[ncfool]

What would President Obama say and do?

[Argus]

Prosecutor Anne de Fontette told the court she was seeking a tougher sentence than usual, adding: "I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."

So stop. You'll feel better.

[poobear]

“YOU’LL GET A WHOLE LOT MORE TIRED OF SHARIA LAW, YOU DIMWIT!................”

The one thing I fear is that many like minded (no-minded) socialists WOULDN’T mind it at all! They’d be the first to convert to this cult.

[stevio]

Sad.

[zip.com]

What would President Obama say and do?

Not much -- he might use "the wrong syntax" or get "taken out of context" or get taken "the wrong way" or ........ any number of ways he's used to try to get out of his remarks! LOL!

[21twelve]

Seeing as this is a court case:

“Bridgett Bardot, Bridgett Bardot, Bridgett Bardot...”
“Excuse me - why are you saying Bridgett Bardot?”
“Well, anything I say will be held against me!”

(Oh, and thanks for posting her photo from years gone by!)

[crusty old prospector]

"I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."

Then don't.

[Cecily]

Brigitte Bardot = The New Charlemagne

Too bad the French won’t heed her.

[Red Badger]

They have a LOT IN COMMON!..................

[EggsAckley]

“Looks good for 73!”

Trust me, that is a VERY old photo. I saw one of her recently and she looks very bad. It’s sad to see her that way. I hope no one posts a current pic of her. Let’s just remember her from the old days.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thought police. Coming to a town near you.

[KJC1]

I wonder how many imams France prosecutes for “inciting racial hatred” or whatever.

[shove_it]

>>””I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot.”<<

Prosecute the clueless prosecutors and award beautiful Brigitte the Croix de guerre.

[KJC1]

Not to mention what she looks like isn’t the point, it’s what she is saying, which is dead-on correct.

[MrB]

Think about this:

Is there ANY freedom, not connected to sexual behavior, that they actually support?

NO.

On another note, if the Islamists punish this woman, perhaps that’ll make the rest of the frogs wake the f’ up!

[trappedinnj]

“http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk47/trappedinnj/?action=view&current=bardot1.jpg";

[evets]

NOT GUILTY!

[sono]

The truth is its best defense.

[Rick.Donaldson]

The French are fried.....

America... you’d BETTER NOT let this happen anywhere here.

[taraytarah]

Coming soon to a country near you

My thoughts exactly. How sobering.

[MrB]

Ah, you would think so,

but a judge in Australia ruled in a case about “religious intolerance”

that the defendent wasn’t allowed to read the Koran in court as his defense,

because that, in and of itself, was religiously intolerant.

[Squawk 8888]

This is enough to make me forgive every stupid thing she ever said about the seal hunt.

[drdemars]

Saw her in the outdoor food market in San Tropez in 1978 and couldn't believe it was her due to her appearance. She refused our cameraman allowance to film her. She did not age well.

[Squawk 8888]

Most “human rights” or “anti-hate” legislation specifically states that the truthfulness of a statement is insufficient as a defence.

[Hatteras]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PGR88]

All Americans must realize - for all their hubris and claims to enlightenment, Europe is once again making another swing to totalinarianism, led by the elites. It’s not the Nazi’s, but the will come in a different form of EU bureacracy, political correctness, and forced multiculturalism. It is part of the European fabric of life.

[Clock King]

Then it’s time for the French to start taking heads again.