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April 15, 2008

France: Bardot's Muslim Comments Prosecuted As Racist

News from Reuters and (in French) Le Figaro, Challenges and Nouvel Observateur.

Brigitte Bardot was once the last word in female cinematic allure during the 1950s and 1960s, though most of her films were in French and few were regarded as classics. She was born in 1934 and retired from movies in 1973 just before her 40th birthday. Her retirement happened just after completing her 48th movie. Since 1986 she has been associated mainly with her animal welfare charity, Foundation for the Protection of Distressed Animals, which she runs in St Tropez in the South of France where she has lived since the 1960s.

Since 1992 Bardot has been married to Bernard d'Ormal, a former adviser to the Front National party. Since 1997 she has been sued four times for "inciting racial hatred" for her comments about Muslims. In 1997 she was fined for saying in the newspaper Le Figaro that France was becoming over-run by "sheep-slaughtering Muslims."

In 1998 she was again found guilty of incitement, over comments she made about the killing of civilians in Algeria. She had also complained about the growing number of mosques in France, "while our church-bells fall silent for want of priests."

Her third conviction came in June 2000 for statements she had written in 1999 in a book called "Le Carre de Pluton" (Pluto's Square). Here she complained about sheep slaughter by Muslims. Here she penned a section entitled "Open Letter to my Lost France". She wrote: "my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."

In 2003 she published a book called "A Scream in the Silence" which landed her in court once again. On June 10, 2004, a French court ruled that she "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."

In the introduction to this book, she had written: "I do not hold religious Muslims in high esteem." She also wrote: "For 20 years we have submitted to a dangerous and uncontrolled underground infiltration. Not only does it fail to give way to our laws and customs. Quite the contrary, as time goes by it tries to impose its own laws on us. We were disturbed by their barbaric practices; we went to court; we condemned their unacceptable behaviour which left homes covered in blood, and filled rubbish chutes with skin, bone and oozing brains. To no avail!"

The former movie goddess railed particularly against the sacrifice of sheep at Eid celebrations. She called the 9/11 attackers "monstrous, satanic men" and wrote: "All those 'youths' who terrorise the population, rape young girls, train pit-bulls for attack ... spit on the police -- they are the ones who at the smallest signal from their chiefs will suddenly put us through the same kind of thing that happened in a Moscow theatre."

Today, Bardot went on trial for a fifth time for "inciting racial hatred", in a prosecution that was brought by MRAP (the Movement Against Racism And For Friendshp Between Peoples) which had sued her previously over her book "A Scream in the Silence".

The trial is being held in a Paris courtroom, the 17th correctional chamber of the Paris County Court. Anne de Fontette, prosecuting, said: "I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot." The prosecution is demanding that she receive a two months' suspended prison sentence and a fine of 15,000 Euros ($24,000).

Her latest controversy comes from comments she had made in a letter to the current French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. These comments were later published on her animal charity's website. She again criticized the Eid al-Adha celebrations, where sheep are sacrificed, and wrote: "I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 15, 2008 3:14 PM

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