June 10, 2004

Beauty is Skin Deep; Ugly Goes Deeper

I couldn’t resist this one . Brigitte Bardot, the French beauty from the 1960’s turned animal rights activist has made big news for her outlandish, outrageous and outright racist comments. She was just convicted of inciting racial hatred for remarks in her book “A Scream in the Silence,” an outspoken attack on gays, Moslems, and whoever she felt like lambasting.

    In the book, she laments the "Islamization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam." She told the court France was going through a period of decadence and said she opposed interracial marriage.

    "I was born in 1934, at that time interracial marriage wasn't approved of," she said. "There are many new languages in the new Europe. Mediocrity is taking over from beauty and splendor. There are many people who are filthy, badly dressed and badly shaven."

    In her book, she also attacks homosexuals as "fairground freaks," condemns the presence of women in government and denounces the "scandal of unemployment benefits."

In 1998, Bardot was fined $3,250 for inciting racial hatred for comments about civilian massacres in Algeria. A court had previously fined her for saying France was being overrun by “sheep-slaughtering Muslims.”

Animal rights activist, indeed. And we thought Samuel Huntington was a racist.

Posted by dmorse at June 10, 2004 06:28 PM