"of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France," and ordered to pay nearly $25,000 in damages and a fine.
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. [From another article: In her letter, she argued that Muslims should stun the animals before slaughtering them.]
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."
If someone can point me to an English translation of Bardot's letter (which she had allegedly published as well as sending to Sarkozy) — or, failing that, just to the French original — I'd be much obliged. Thanks to Antonio Haynes for the pointer.
Er. What about human rights?
If Muslims are going up against PETA-style leftists, I'm rooting for injuries.
Bardot is generally considered right-wing in France. Of course, this goes to show the silliness of the single-dimensional left-right classification.
Has anyone tried to sue for "hate speech" as intentional inflection of emotional distress?
How sweet.
for the record Muslim slaughtering is exactly as the Jewish people.
"Ritual slaughter is known as shechitah. The method of slaughter is a quick, deep stroke across the throat with a perfectly sharp blade with no nicks or unevenness. This method is painless, causes unconsciousness within two seconds, and is widely recognized as the most humane method of slaughter possible.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm
Wikipedia reports that the European Court of Human Rights, in Jewish Liturgical Association Cha'are Shalom Ve Tsedek v. France, upheld the European countries to ban ritual slaughter so long as religious people could import suitable meat from outside the country. It also reports that the German high court recently struck down Germany's ban as violating the German Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom.
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Bardot is definitely a figure of the far-right as that term is used in France. I think she would be in America, too. She opposes immigration, despises Islam, and has written a great deal about her opinion that Muslim immigrants are destroying France. She accuses homosexuals of pretty much the same thing. She supports Le Pen, which is about as far to the right as you get. She's also made a number of comments to the effect that women don't belong in government. Bardot may have been a libertine but was never a leftist; for instance, back in the sixties, she supported De Gaulle. None of these opinions will go over even with the French center-right, let alone the left.
Besides all that, for some reason she is vegetarian and an animal rights activist. But that seems to be some sort of idiosyncracy of hers.
Add her beliefs together, and you see that she gets very exercised about how Muslims slaughter animals, particularly when they propose to carry out ritual slaughter on French soil, as it combines her all her bugaboos. Well, I guess if the Muslim butchers were gay it would be worse.