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.”
France: Former Actress Brigitte Bardot on Trial for Insulting Islam……
I think Pat Condell says it best:
I don’t have much in common with Brigitte Bardot, an elderly French actress, or Pat Condell, a British atheist, or with Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant, and Mark Steyn, a partial list of Canadians whose free speech is endangered.
Except this: a threat to their free speech is a threat to mine, especially with demands that SCOTUS rely on international law (denied for now, but not necessarily forever), and in light of “Human Rights” faux-courts popping up in the United States, as in the case of a Christian who didn’t want to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony.
It can happen here, and there’s no reason to think it won’t happen here if we don’t keep pushing back while we still can.
Update: Welcome, SteynOnline readers, and thanks for the link!
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 04/16/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
Thanks for the link!