Bardot is some sort of rabid animal rights activist, which puts her at odds with Muslim slaughter practices and some of their rituals. Here in America we meat eaters and hunters bear the slings and arrows of the misguided anti-Natural order activists because of our deep abiding respect for the principle of free speech.
But we’re for the most part not Saudi-influenced radical Muslims who can’t bear criticism from women without calling for riots in the streets. France, due to their inability to control the growing Islamist insurgency, has no patience for the freedom of a woman to speak her conscience:
PARIS – Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.
A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.
Bardot’s lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal.
A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation’s quarterly journal.
In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is “tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts.”
Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.
French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.
“She is tired of this type of proceedings,” he said. “She has the impression that people want to silence her. She will not be silenced in her defense of animal rights.”
“Racial or religious or racial grounds.” Journalism school’s not what it used to be I assume. But why should Bardot’s heartfelt beliefs be respected less than Muslims’ heartfelt beliefs? If there is “racial” discrimination here it is against a European non-Muslim who is being told she isn’t free to speak her mind.
But of course there is no racism here, unless you believe Islam is a race. There is a concerted effort to take away the rights of a woman to speak out because of the craven fear many Europeans harbor of the violent Muslim radicals they allow to fester in their midst.
Whose side are you on? Whose rights will you defend? The right of a legend to blurt out her animal rights nonsense, or the rights of members of a hateful death cult to silence anyone they think offends them. I happen to think Muslims have the right to follow their ritual practices, including slaughtering sheep on Eid. I would fight for their right to do that.
But I also personally think that Islam is hateful. I think it’s a death cult. I should have the right to say that.