Brigitte Bardot On Trial For "Racism" — Not A Foreign Concept
— Dirty Harry @ 1:38 pm
Oh-so enlightened France has their thought-police out:
PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.
Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol 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".
Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim traditions and immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.
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 told the court she was seeking a tougher sentence than usual, adding: "I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot."
Scary, isn't it? And unfortunately, not something completely foreign to our own country:
A Barack Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention was "ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children 'monkeys,' " reports the Chicago-Sun Times. (We didn't realize this was against the law, but the Chicago-Sun Times explains that the charge was disorderly conduct.)
If calling kids climbing a tree monkeys (I doubt race had anything to do with it) is disorderly conduct, why isn't Obama's mentor, Reverend Wright, on death row?
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