Brigitte Bardot:Anti-Islam?

5/15/03 | David Hearst and Paul Webster

[philosofy123]

Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued

David Hearst and Paul Webster in Paris Thursday May 15, 2003 The Guardian

It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, an unabashed fan of the National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was given a lot of rope. Yesterday the free ride for her tirades against the decadence of modern society ended after two anti-racist and human rights movements announced they would take the 68-year-old to court.

Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine.

She says that gays are fairground freaks, teachers arrive at work with greasy hair wearing disgusting jeans and muddy trainers, and that "the professional unemployed" don't even want to work illegally.

She rails against what she claims is the "Islamisation of France", and after a lifelong campaign against the death penalty, she says the guillotine should be brought back for those who murder children.

The Movement Against Racism And For The Friendship of Peoples (MRAP) and the League of Human Rights said yesterday they would sue her. Mouloud Aounit, the president of MRAP, said: "We expect justice to hit her hard. We need a ruling which will dissuade and prevent her from making further outbursts."

The former film star, who once shook middle-class moralists with her libertine lifestyle, said it had been her intention to shock by "saying out loud what people think to themselves" - a phrase invented by Mr Le Pen.

Ms Bardot, who is married to a National Front executive, Bernard d'Ormale, was last interviewed by Paris Match, at her seaside villa in St Tropez and the nearby farmhouse.

She claimed that it was while driving between the two houses on her way to feed the goats that she realised that "the intrinsic and fundamental values of mankind no longer existed".

[Paul Ross]

I don't hate France. I pity her, and feel sorry for the minority of good people trapped there by a socialist media and a political majority which could care less about freedom of speech or thought.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I have to agree with you. Anyone who prefers a cuddly kitten to an Islamic terrorist is on the right track.

[koba37]

Bardot is being sued by the Human League? Aren't they are really crappy English rock group from the early 80s? What did she ever do to them?? ;)

[conservativemusician]

How dare she speak her mind!

I guess there is nothing like the 1st amendment in frogville.

[LibWhacker]

[conservativemusician]

That is scary.

[colorado tanker]

Probably the last French leader worthy of any respect was Talleyrand, and the only for his amazing ability to betray everyone

LOL! Now THERE was a weasel!

[colorado tanker]

I think you'd have to go back to Louis XIV to find a Frenchman in a leadership position 'who has any redeeming qualities'

I'm kinda partial to Bonaparte, myself. He had to be stopped, but you also have to admire the run he had. Plus the three best military/naval historical novel series came out of the Napoleonic Wars.

[white rose]

...And, of course, he was a Corsican...

[colorado tanker]

If the French were really concerned about liberty and self-determination they'd give Corsica back!

[kcar]

"and the League of Human Rights said yesterday they would sue her"..."to dissaude further outbursts"

Guess there's a wee bit of a difference between "human rights" (as championed by the UN) and individual rights, as declared by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Pretty easy choice from where I sit (in the USofA).

[headsonpikes]

"I'm kinda partial to Bonaparte..."

Well, the man made a good brandy, but was he really a Frenchman? ;^)

[freedom44]

Le Pen is Pat Buchanan of France. He's far from a conservative--out-dated with radical views.

Plus, he doesn't like the USA and would have been a tougher challenge than Chirac.

[freedom44]

Plus you forgot the mention that Le Pen hates Jews as much as he hates Muslims.

Once you find that out i figure your views will change.

[Z-28]

Another article today from the Guaurdian:

Bardot's right-wing rant shocks France

Gwladys Fouché
Friday May 16, 2003

Brigitte Bardot, the sixties cinema goddess turned animal rights activist, has managed to scandalise France yet again. But unlike in her younger days, it had nothing to do with her provocative screen persona or the number of her lovers. This time, it's with an astonishing right-wing rant at the expense of almost anyone still living in France.
In her new book, A Cry in the Silence, Ms Bardot denigrates gay and lesbians people as "cheap faggots or circus freaks" and the unemployed as people "who only accept jobs on the black market ... and cash in on taxpayers' money".

Getting into her stride, BB says schools are "dens of depravations filed with drug dealers, young terrorist clubs and condom users," while teachers "come to work unshaven, their hair a mess, their shirts dirty, wearing filthy jeans and muddy trainers".

The star of Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris and Roger Vadim's Et Dieu Créa la Femme also denounces "the Islamisation of French society", benefits for "polygamous families" and the Muslim festival of Eid in the book.

No prize for guessing which French politician Ms Bardot most admires: Jean-Marie le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front. To BB, he is "faithful to his ideas through thick and thin".

Two French civil rights groups, the Human Rights League and the Movement Against Racism (MRAP), have announced this week they will sue Ms Bardot, probably for racial discrimination and provoking racial hatred.

MRAP's leader, Mouloud Aounit, told the French daily Libération: "This is the third time we have sued Brigitte Bardot. We are expecting justice to be severe. A judgment must be dissuasive and preventative."

Bardot has courted controversy throughout her career, as a sex siren in the 1960s and as an animal rights activist in later life. She hasn't made a film since the 1970s, but has published various volumes of memoirs.

Despite the outrage among human rights groups, Un Cri Dans Le Silence is currently riding second in French Amazon's sales charts.


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I remember smuggling a Playboy magazine issue featuring the "BB" (Brigitte Bardot) to school in 3rd grade. I can still recall that she was 38-24-36 :) And I can still see the centerfold in my mind's eye ;)

[Z-28]

I've never been to France (took it as a language in high school though), but in my limited world travel to Canada, Mexico, and the lesser Antilles, I have discovered that the "conservative" and "liberal" labels have vastly different meanings in different countries (such as Canada) and can be totally opposite of what they mean to us in the USA. Very confusing too.

[Northern Yankee]

She was dropped as a darling of the media several years ago when she became concerned about the country of France losing its Catholic identity. She became very passionate in that regard, and the media stopped paying any attention to her.

She's right on target in this.

[Mr. Mojo]

Stay the hell away from my girl friend!!!!!!!!

OK, since you're around her age, I'll back down. ...Maybe she has a daughter.

[TXBlair]

"France is a lost cause anyway, it really doesn't matter who's in charge there. Chirac or Le Pen or Pepe Le Pew, France will always be a toilet."

LOL!!

[U S Army EOD]

Can I watch???