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Brigitte Bardot's not so bon mots for Muslims

By M&C People Apr 16, 2008, 0:16 GMT

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Once the muse of filmmakers, fashion houses and all of France, the former film star Brigitte Bardot was placed on trial Tuesday for insulting Muslims.

This is the fifth time the ardent animal lover has been charged with "inciting racial hatred" over her remarks about Islam and its followers. In 2000, Bardot was again convicted for comments in her book Pluto's Square, specifically the chapter "Open Letter to My Lost France" grieved for "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."

French media reports that Prosecutors requested the 73-year-old former receive a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts".

Bardot has never been shy in expressing her disdain for her France being overrun by its former colonies of African immigrants and especially Muslims.

Reuters reports that she has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000.

Prosecutor Anne de Fontette stated: "I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."

Bardot was not able to be present at the hearing due to health complications.

Opposing her remarks are the various French anti-racist groups, particularly over her remarks regarding the gruesome sheep slaughtering for the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.  Something the animal rights proponent Bardot finds offensive.

Reuters claims that 8 percent of France's population are Muslims.

"I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts," Bardot said.



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she is just saying the obviousApr 16th, 2008 - 04:29:47

So they fine a woman for saying this:

''I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts,''

After this:


'I was gang raped by three people I knew, and I couldn't say anything, because in my culture, your family is dishonored if you lose your virginity,” says Bellil. “So I kept quiet, and the rapes continued. The next time, I was pulled off a commuter train and no one lifted a finger to help me. …Everybody turned their head away. They were all looking out the window.”

When Bellil's family discovered that she had been raped, they weren't sympathetic. They threw her out onto the streets. But she's since discovered that what happened to her was not the only case.

“There was a trial in Lille where a 13-year-old girl was gang raped by 80 men. Sometimes, it’s 80, or 50 or 10. It’s absolutely terrible,” says Bellil. “In the case of Argenteuil, it was horrible. A young woman was raped in a school. Of course, everybody knew, but they're so afraid of these young men that they prefer to close their eyes. That's the price of peace in the ghettos.”



And this:



Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union

By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:48am BST 07/10/2006

Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared 'intifada' against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.

As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were 'in a state of civil war' with Muslims in the most depressed 'banlieue' estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.

It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones.

The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the 'taboo' of attacking officers on patrol has been broken....

Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an 'intifada' on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas.

He said yesterday: 'We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their 'comrades' free when they are arrested.'


Or this:

Why 112 cars are burning every day
A year after the Paris riots violence and despair continue to grip the immigrant suburbs
By Charles Bremner

FLAMES lick around a burning car on a tiny telephone screen. Omar, 17, a veteran of France’s suburban riots, replayed the sequence with pride. “It was great. We did lots of them and then we went out and torched more the next day.”

Omar, whose parents immigrated from Mali, was savouring memories of the revolt that erupted 12 months ago from his home, the Chêne Pointu estate in Clichy-sous-Bois, in the eastern outskirts of Paris. “We’re ready for it again. In fact it hasn’t stopped,” he added.

Before next week’s anniversary of the Clichy riots, the violence and despair on the estates are again to the fore. Despite a promised renaissance, little has changed, and the lid could blow at any moment.

The figures are stark. An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some police talk of open war with youths who are bent on more than vandalism.

“The thing that has changed over the past month is that they now want to kill us,” said Bruno Beschizza, the leader of Synergie, a union to which 40 per cent of officers belong. Action Police, a hardline union, said: “We are in a civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists.”

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Realist.Apr 16th, 2008 - 12:15:21

C'mon France, lead by example and shoot the lot of these muslim scum.
They are in the process of trying to destroy western way of life.
Sitting on your hands and appeasing to these freaks is only helping them out.
I would love to wake up and read the papers saying 'French president orders army into mu-SLIME areas and kills the LOT'.
This would be a good start for all of Europe and the UK.
We hate them and they hate us, Lets do it,.
Sooner the better, this is a failed social experiment and it will only get worse before it gets alot worse.

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she's onto it.Apr 16th, 2008 - 12:25:22

Good one Brigitte, blind freddy can see what is happening all over Europe and the UK, when are our pussy Govts going to take forcefull action and aniahlate these lot.?
Stop immigration of all muslims and send the rest packing by force.
This would be exellent to see, I hate them and their crap religion with a passion, they are NOT wanted at all, PARASITIC SCUM OF THE EARTH..!!

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guadalcanal diaryApr 16th, 2008 - 19:05:40

It seems perfectly obvious...there is no free speech in France...or Canada...or Britain...or??? when it comes to telling the truth about Islam. We in America hear about the riots by the 'French youth' and most of us go about our business, not realizing that 'French youth' is a euphanism for Muslim thugs. 'Political correctness' defn: purposeful obsfuscation of the truth in order not to hurt anybodies feelings. AKA: A lie. When will the French police/public wake up and issue shoot on sight orders for these parasites? The 'French youth' are going to keep it up until the Europeans decide they don't want their countries and cultures destroyed by a bunch of stone age sh*theads. The suburbs in question seem to be target rich environments. They should be treated as such.

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NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN FRANCEApr 17th, 2008 - 00:22:14

This story is just plain frightening !! No more free speech in France ?

She was not inciting hate !! She was speaking the truth ! o m Gosh !!

I'm freaked out !! The french courts are now run by islamic law ?

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terrence macMay 24th, 2008 - 18:09:54


I think some of these comments are downright scary. Let's just make it clear: It's not Muslims. It's Al Qaeda and terrorist organizations. To say it's Muslims and that they're scum tells me that you've not been paying attention.

To lump all Muslims together is to call all Christians evil simply because of the actions of the KKK, because Al Qaeda is to Muslims what the KKK is to Christians. It's easy to hate. It's more challenging to take the time to know the facts.

It's alarming and sad.

And just so none of you gets the idea that I'm saying all of this because I'm being defensive, I'm Irish Catholic.

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citizenJul 17th, 2008 - 09:47:34

MURDEROUS MUSLIM SCUM.

WATCH FITNA ON YOUTUBE.

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