Brigitte Bardot:Anti-Islam?

5/15/03 | David Hearst and Paul Webster

[philosofy123]

Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued

David Hearst and Paul Webster in Paris Thursday May 15, 2003 The Guardian

It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, an unabashed fan of the National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was given a lot of rope. Yesterday the free ride for her tirades against the decadence of modern society ended after two anti-racist and human rights movements announced they would take the 68-year-old to court.

Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine.

She says that gays are fairground freaks, teachers arrive at work with greasy hair wearing disgusting jeans and muddy trainers, and that "the professional unemployed" don't even want to work illegally.

She rails against what she claims is the "Islamisation of France", and after a lifelong campaign against the death penalty, she says the guillotine should be brought back for those who murder children.

The Movement Against Racism And For The Friendship of Peoples (MRAP) and the League of Human Rights said yesterday they would sue her. Mouloud Aounit, the president of MRAP, said: "We expect justice to hit her hard. We need a ruling which will dissuade and prevent her from making further outbursts."

The former film star, who once shook middle-class moralists with her libertine lifestyle, said it had been her intention to shock by "saying out loud what people think to themselves" - a phrase invented by Mr Le Pen.

Ms Bardot, who is married to a National Front executive, Bernard d'Ormale, was last interviewed by Paris Match, at her seaside villa in St Tropez and the nearby farmhouse.

She claimed that it was while driving between the two houses on her way to feed the goats that she realised that "the intrinsic and fundamental values of mankind no longer existed".

[philosofy123]

Jean-Marie Le Pen was a very popular contendent for the Presidency against Chirac. The US did not like his conservative views, and supported Chirac?

[eastsider]

Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine.

She says that gays are fairground freaks, teachers arrive at work with greasy hair wearing disgusting jeans and muddy trainers, and that "the professional unemployed" don't even want to work illegally.

The sex kitten who roared.

[browardchad]

The US did not like his conservative views, and supported Chirac?

I didn't know Americans could vote in France.

The Guardian characteristically neglects to point out that Bardot's book is number one in sales at Amazon.fr, that she has been sued as a "racist" under French law at least three times previously, and that she likes Chirac.

From AFP:

In politics she likes President Jacques Chirac "as a human and a friend," and praises his stand on Iraq (news - web sites). Far right leader Jean-Marie le Pen and Trotskyist Arlette Laguiller are sincere and consistent. But the rest are "weather vanes who turn left or right as the fancy takes them."

[philosofy123]

She was my childhood godess! Later I learned that she became an animal right activist? I guess like our Hollywood stars, she needs to stay in the news!

I do support her views to curb immigration, and the Islamic influences on France.

[dfwgator]

Le Pen is no conservative and he hates America even more than ChIraq.

[philosofy123]

The US media, and the world intellactuals were all up in arm against Le Pen. You need to dig back in memory!

[js1138]

Good to know that France has a law against thinking and speaking.

[philosofy123]

France do not hate America. Their problem is they dream about the good old days when they were a world power. The only thing that left for them as assurance of their past glory is their seat on the UN Security Council. Hence, all that power play over Iraq, was noting but assertivness of their world position. Bush smashed their dreams, and I think that is probably is going to be the end of that stupid thing they call Vive La Diference?

[Redbob]

Bravo!
(Ummm, would anyone have a good Brigitte photo to post - just in the interests of intellectual accuracy, of course?)

[philosofy123]

The Godess of cleavage! The Godess of lips!

[robowombat]

At the height of her sex kitten carreer circa 1958-1960 La Bardot was an enthusiatic supporter of various left wing causes most notably being opposed to the Algerian War. It would seem she has become another liberal mugged by reality and is really angry about what reality is for France.

[aristeides]

Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine.

amazon.fr was listing the title as "Le dernier cri," but they seem to have corrected that. Sure enough, it is now Un cri dans le silence. It is now #2 in sales at that site, by the way. Still no review there.

[aristeides]

Le Pen is no conservative and he hates America even more than ChIraq.

He does, however, oppose the Islamization of France.

[philosofy123]

You are correct. The liberal behaviors in France, England, Germany, and the US has caused flood of immigrants that are changing these countries in a dramatic, and unacceptable way.

[Mr. Mojo]

[Bardot] attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine.

I think I'm in love .....and I don't care if she's 29 years my senior.

[Mr. Mojo]

The Movement Against Racism And For The Friendship of Peoples (MRAP) and the League of Human Rights said yesterday they would sue her.

The Frogs wouldn't know of freedom of speech and freedom of association if hit them in their derriers.

She claimed that it was while driving between the two houses on her way to feed the goats that she realised that "the intrinsic and fundamental values of mankind no longer existed".

Wise woman.

[eastsider]

I can see it now -- a platform in Paris ... a hooded henchman stands at the tops of the stairs ... there's a drumroll as the accused is led up to the guillotine ... thousands of men with blood lust, screaming and shouting ... the guillotine drops, the head rolls into the basket ... the executioner grabs the head, holding it high with one hand, and with the other, lifts off the hood to reveal a young, puffy-lipped Bardot ... she tosses her head back and shakes her golden mane ... there's a surge toward the platform ... she throws her hood into the crowd ... pandemonium breaks out ...

She was breathtaking! : )

[Paulus Invictus]

We borrowed a whole roll of her first film before it was shown in the US and I was elected to project it in our private theater at work. Bardot appeared semi-clad and caused a sensation among the guys. It was the first time we had seen her, and she was unforgettably beautiful and non-stop sexy. I elected not to tell the wife about seeing Brigitte's film--it would have caused problems.

[dfwgator]

He does, however, oppose the Islamization of France.

And Hitler opposed Communists, what's your point?

[aristeides]

Le Pen is a populist who seems to have more or less accepted democracy. I don't think a comparison to Hitler is warranted. Do you consider Chirac (who abets the Islamization of France) better than Le Pen?