Posted on 06/10/2004 9:53:38 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
PARIS (AFP) - Former French actress Brigitte Bardot was fined 5,000 euros (6,000 dollars) by a Paris court for writing a book in which she declared disgust with her country's tolerance of Islam.
The judgement added to a number of previous decisions which have found the 69-year-old of provoking racial hatred in her expression of right-wing, xenophobic views.
Bardot's publisher, Rocher, was also fined 5,000 euros for last year bringing out the book, "Un Cri Dans le Silence" (A Cry in the Silence).
Bardot, who lives in the French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez, was not present for the verdict.
Two civil rights groups, the Movement Against Racism and For Friendship Between People and the League of Human Rights, brought the lawsuit because of several passages in the book.
One of the most incriminating sections read: "I am against the Islamisation of France! This obligatory allegiance, this forced submission disgusts me.... Our ancestors, the elderly, our grandfathers, our fathers have for centuries given their lives to push out successive invaders."
The two groups which sued the ex-actress were each awarded a symbolic one euro in damages.
A complaint over a tirade in the book against "mixing our genes" with non-European immigrants -- taken in context to mean Muslims -- was not upheld.
In its verdict, the court ruled that Bardot had deliberately tried to draw a link between Islam and terrorism by mentioning the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in a chapter on a Muslim holiday celebrated in France and elsewhere.
It found that the book argued that "the presence of Muslims on French territory and only seem undesirable to the reader, who is ineluctably led ... to reject members of the Muslim community through hate and violence."
France has Europe's biggest Muslim community, estimated at five million out of a total population of 60 million.
In her defence, Bardot admitted in court last month that she may have been too direct in the expression of her views but she did not seek to hurt anyone.
"It's my overall view of a society becoming completely decadent, where it's like mediocrity has become more important than beauty and greatness, where there are more dirty, badly kept people invading the world," she said.
This, my friends, is where we are headed if we do not stop it now.
"Hate crimes" be damned. Murder should have the degrees of 1st, 2nd and 3rd. When we include Race/religion/nationality/sexuality to play a role, we will NOT all be "equal in the eyes of the law."
Excellent post. You hit the nail on the head.
It's getting a bit nippy in here.
LOL! Can we start carrying signs saying "Burger Eating War Monkey Club" or something like that?? Have to mop off the monitor now...
BTTT
"Please, sir, can I have some more?"
How true. Just think: this is the country most revered (after Viet Nam) by John Kerry. He went to boarding school there and his first cousin ran for president under the Green party.
CD
Without referring back to the photo, tell me the color of the towel. For extra credit, what color are her eyes?
A bit nippy or as one weather man here in Austin used to say, "It's getting very nippley here this week." Needless to say, that did not last long.
She has the face that could launch a thousand ships -- a voice that would launch a thousand sticks of dynamite.
What does the troll imagine it's beef with you is??
check your FRmail
My friend, I lived in Brussels for three years and the only criminal incident I had a first hand knowledge of involved a group of teenage muslims and the English girl who was our baby daughters' nanny. She was actually married to a Moroccan but that didn't help her when she was mugged and robbed in a small local park. The area around Gare du Midi is a mini Marrakesh. Sorry, but hating them is one thing. Doing something about them is another and I wonder whether the Belgians (or any Europeans other than the Dutch and the Danes) have the energy or will.
Why does these women turn looney when they join the animal rights movement?
Not bad at all!
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