Brigitte Bardot Again On Trial For Criticizing Islam

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080415/wl_time/isbrigittebardotbashingislam

Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam?

By BRUCE CRUMLEY/PARIS Tue Apr 15, 5:20 PM ET

She may be better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s

French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a

standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum.

Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in

view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors

sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two month suspended

sentence.

"I'm a bit tired of trying Madame Bardot," admitted assistant prosecutor

Anne de Fonette, as she urged the court to impose "the most striking and

remarkable" punishment in the case. A verdict is expected on June 3.

The current charge against Bardot was lodged by the Movement Against Racism

and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to

French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this

population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our

country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that

letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival

of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the

media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose

rising popularity was based in part on his hard line on immigration and

tough stand against troublesome youths from immigrant backgrounds.

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Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:

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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080415/wl_time/isbrigittebardotbashingislam

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> Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam?

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> By BRUCE CRUMLEY/PARIS Tue Apr 15, 5:20 PM ET

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> She may be better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s

> French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a

> standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum.

> Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in

> view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors

> sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two month suspended

> sentence.

>

> "I'm a bit tired of trying Madame Bardot," admitted assistant prosecutor

> Anne de Fonette, as she urged the court to impose "the most striking and

> remarkable" punishment in the case. A verdict is expected on June 3.

>

> The current charge against Bardot was lodged by the Movement Against Racism

> and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), citing a letter Bardot wrote to

> French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this

> population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our

> country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that

> letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival

> of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the

> media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose

> rising popularity was based in part on his hard line on immigration and

> tough stand against troublesome youths from immigrant backgrounds.

>

> (snip)

The freedom to voice opposition to having your throat cut doesn't exist

in France. What happened to the French Revolution reforms?

Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:

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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080415/wl_time/isbrigittebardotbashingislam

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> Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam?

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> By BRUCE CRUMLEY/PARIS Tue Apr 15, 5:20 PM ET

>

> She may be better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s

> French cinema, but these days Brigitte Bardot is better known as a

> standard-bearer of the anti-immigrant wing of France's political spectrum.

> Bardot went on trial Tuesday charged with "inciting racial hatred," and in

> view of her four previous convictions on similar charges, prosecutors

> sought exceptionally stiff penalties of $22,000 and a two month suspended

> sentence.

>

> "I'm a bit tired of trying Madame Bardot," admitted assistant prosecutor

> Anne de Fonette,

When I was younger, I would have loved to have tried Brigitte Bardot:

http://tinyurl.com/4oxsau

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