Brigitte Bardot Fined For Attacking Gays, Muslims in Book

[liberalpragmatist]

Damn. Too bad - she was pretty hot.



http://members.eisa.net.au/~johben57/brigitte.html (a Brigitte Bardot photo gallery)

PARIS - French actress-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was convicted Thursday of inciting racial hatred and ordered to pay $6,000 — the fourth such fine for the former sex symbol since 1997.

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In the book, she laments the “Islamization of France” and the “underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam.”

“Mme. Bardot presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders, responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate the French to the extent of wanting to exterminate them,” the court said.

France’s 5-million-member Muslim community is the largest in Europe.

Bardot, who was not present for the verdict, denied the charges in a tearful court appearance last month, saying her book did not target Islam or people from North Africa.

She told the court France was going through a period of decadence and said she opposed interracial marriage.

“I was born in 1934, at that time interracial marriage wasn’t approved of,” she said.

“There are many new languages in the new Europe. Mediocrity is taking over from beauty and splendor. There are many people who are filthy, badly dressed and badly shaven.”

In her book, she also attacks homosexuals as “fairground freaks,” condemns the presence of women in government and denounces the “scandal of unemployment benefits.”

Bardot’s attacks on Muslims prompted anti-racism groups to launch legal proceedings against the former star, who turned her back on film after 46 films to concentrate on animal welfare.

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Don't you hate it when hot people turn out to be total Freepers*?

* I suppose she can't be called a Freeper, since she's French and not a religious Fundie, but a fascist bigot certainly seems to fit.

EDIT: Oh, and for the record, she's not too hot anymore:

[Lavender Brown]

1. I don't get how she can be an animal activist

She doesn't seem to like human beings very much.

[djeseru]

2. She hasn't realized...

...that the rest of the world grew up. That is too bad ~ I used to have some respect for her and her animal-rights mission. Seems the animals have more rights in her view than humans...

=(

[ForrestGump]

3. She's been a wacko for a long time

And someone who aged as gracelessly as she did has a lot of nerve criticizing people for the way they look or act.

[devilgrrl]

4. If anything, she's a French person only a Freeper could love

:shrug:

[gottaB]

5. "Mediocrity is taking over from beauty and splendor"

http://www.isabelleadjani.net/

[DerBeppo]

6. fined for expressing herself?

i don't think this is good at all despite the content of what she is writing.

the thick streak of authoritarianism built into french democracy is pretty startling sometimes.