Brigitte Bardot's Islamophobia

Society Religion & Philosophy
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This lady is seriously getting on my nerves :rolleyes: i remember her raving and ranting, during last year’s (or year before that?) Ramadan, because of the ‘inhumane’ way we slaughter the animals. Just cuz you’re a freaking animal rights lover, doesn’t mean you have to become an Islamophobe as well. i wonder why she doesn’t say the same things during Thanksgiving ? What happens then - aren’t turkeys put under the knife ? What about the way Jews have their own ways for killing animals ? What about all the turkey that’s eaten over Thanksgiving ? Nah, i guess only Muslims are the barbarians.

**Bardot fined for ‘race hate’ book**, BBC, 10 June 2004

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has been fined 5,000 euros (£3,301) for inciting racial hatred in a book.

The charges against Bardot, 69, related to her best-seller, A Cry In The Silence, in which she said she “opposed the Islamisation of France”.

Last month the former actress apologised in court, and said: “I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.”

In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam.

The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.

Bardot’s comments prompted anti-racism groups to launch legal proceedings against the actress, who now campaigns for animal rights.

**The court said: “Madame Bardot presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders, responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate the French to the extent of wanting to exterminate them.”

It awarded a symbolic one euro in damages to France’s anti-racism movement MRAP and to the League for Human Rights who brought the case to court.**

The court also ordered a 5,000 euro fine against the head of Bardot’s publishing house, Le Rocher, and ordered both to pay for advertisements in two newspapers announcing their convictions.

Bardot has previous convictions for inciting racial violence after criticising in print the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep.

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^ man... some people are just wierd..

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I was thinking to write a few books about comparitive religion. Discussed it with my bhai and everything, and considered using all factual sources. He said if I ever tried such a thing, I better be ready to live a life like Salman Rushdie cause ppl of other religions would never tolerate such books even if I quote their own scripture. sigh The sad part is, I think he is absolutely right, after thinking about it.

But well, if you read some of the books that are available at the library by older authors than her, they are just shocking in terms of the racism. Can anything be done about such books?

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I guess the she doesn't know anything or chooses not to read about Algeria and pre US Vietnam. Surely all those stories about the French atrocities were lies.

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It is useless and nonsense to pay so much attention to someone who has written something against a religion, against Islam.
Such attention, wraths make the writer more popular. This is what the writer actually needs and wins.
Munniji, you are wrong. No one will issue any death threat if you write against other religions. Majority of hindus, Jews and Christians are very broad minded and know how to ignore such writings.

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*Originally posted by anjjan: *
Majority of hindus, Jews and Christians are very broad minded and know how to ignore such writings.
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But all the Hindus Jews and Christians keep on slandering Islam, what kind of broad mindedness is that? I think a clear sign of broadmindedness is that you cannot bring me a single muslim author who had written a book to slander or ridicule any figure of any religion especially when it comes to Jews, Christians and even Hindu dharm.

But since its an open season on Islam, its very fashionable to ridicule Islam and muslims and then being know as Broad Minded.

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Well she did get fined after all. Not a heinous punishment, but a dressing down, nonetheless.

Do you get a fine for inciting hatred against the West in a mosque? If there are such repercussions could anyone cite an example?

Is hatred of the West in the literature and speech of prominent figures discouraged with the potential of fines in Islamic societies?

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you cannot bring me a single muslim author who had written a book to slander or ridicule any figure of any religion especially when it comes to Jews, Christians and even Hindu dharm
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Probably true, that's what GUPSHUP's religion forum is for!

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*Originally posted by fallenpieta: *
I guess the she doesn't know anything or chooses not to read about Algeria and pre US Vietnam. Surely all those stories about the French atrocities were lies.
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Well,, this bloke called Hamza here in London kept on preaching hatred openly, in fact on the street. Police never arrested him until US found links with some of the dodgy characters in the US. This went on for years. Atleast these writers in the west do get punished for poiting out the the wrongs among Muslims. Now if you read this verse from the Quran which Explicitly and Clearly, declares (Chapter of Repentance, 9:29),

"Fight against those who have been given the scripture but believe not in Allah nor the last day, and who forbid not that which Allah has forbidden by His messenger, and who follow not the religion of truth, until they pay the tribute willingly, being brought into submission" (p. 182, English copy by Saudi Arabian scholars).

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strange behaviours.

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But all the Hindus Jews and Christians keep on slandering Islam,

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Majority of hindus don't realy care and probably have no idea of what Islam is about to slander it. Methinks Minime you got a chip on your shoulder.

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*Originally posted by Arvind: *

Majority of hindus don't realy care and probably have no idea of what Islam is about to slander it. Methinks Minime you got a chip on your shoulder.
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Yeah how about we refresh your memory BJP, Shiv sena, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) or world hindu council just to name a few of your extremist muslim hating organisations.

To try and portray hindus as meditating monks who wouldnt hurt a fly has been a myth which has been seen by entire world including the infamous incidents such as the gujerat masscre, the babri mosque incident and the numerous racism meted out to muslims who looked at as 3rd class citizens within india!

As for bridget Bardot she needs to be ignored, she s like one of her pet dogs which she loves so much more than humans. Small dogs bark so what you need to do is ignore the barking dog!

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^^

I do not defend Gujarat and Babri musijd (after all Indian population did throw out Shiv Sena, BJP and turned to secular parties in the recent elections or did you not notice), but did you ever stop to think how hindus were treated by muslim rulers of India all these centuries? Relations between communities are not just based on what happened in the last 10 years. It is based on what happened over centuries. You choose to ignore this probably because you haven't read India's history.
If it is ok for Shias and Sunnis to kill each other because of the differences that originated in 7 th century, should hindus simply forget what the muslim rulers did to them fron 11 th century on?

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^ So what is your point. On one hand you are saying that "Majority of hindus don't realy care and probably have no idea of what Islam is about to slander it." On the other you are saying "Relations between communities are not just based on what happened in the last 10 years. It is based on what happened over centuries. You choose to ignore this probably because you haven't read India's history. Should hindus simply forget what the muslim rulers did to them fron 11 th century on?"

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all the invaders from north were brutal first aryans agianst earlier
inhabitants imposing caste system and later mughal rulers afterall
both came from central asia .

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So what that means it gives a license to the non-muslims to slander Islam?

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*Originally posted by ehsan: *
^ So what is your point. On one hand you are saying that "Majority of hindus don't realy care and probably have no idea of what Islam is about to slander it." On the other you are saying "Relations between communities are not just based on what happened in the last 10 years. It is based on what happened over centuries. You choose to ignore this probably because you haven't read India's history. Should hindus simply forget what the muslim rulers did to them fron 11 th century on?"
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Simple ehsan (maybe not for you). Majority of hindus were not behind any of the atrocities commited against muslims. A specific sect which is VHP/BJP/ShinSEna type people were behind this. Somewhat like laskhar-e-toiba, josh-e-mohammad, laskher-e-jhanghvi in Pakistan. I dont equate all Pakistanis with LET,Josh or LEJ and you shoudnt either all hindus with VHP.

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*Originally posted by Arvind: *

Simple ehsan (maybe not for you). Majority of hindus were not behind any of the atrocities commited against muslims. A specific sect which is VHP/BJP/ShinSEna type people were behind this. Somewhat like laskhar-e-toiba, josh-e-mohammad, laskher-e-jhanghvi in Pakistan. I dont equate all Pakistanis with LET,Josh or LEJ and you shoudnt either all hindus with VHP.
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First of all you should try and avoid making sarcastic remarks like the one you made above. I can retaliate as well but I won't. Secondly read what I have said and show me where I equated all those organisations you listed to all the hindus. Get your facts right. All I was quering was what looked like me to be contradictory statements by you in which you said on one hand that hindus are not bothered about islam and on the other you were saying how could hindus forget what muslims had done to them over the centuries.

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NO I am not being sarcastic. There is a refusal on your part to see that all hindus are not VHP/BJP gundas. Majority are just too busy survivng to bother about these things. Above all they do not have unlimited time and patience to debate these issues on internet. You are just too academic about this ehsan. Most hindus are not VHP gundas because they are busy scraping together a living. On the other hand, yes the collective memory of hindus does include tyranny of some (not all) muslim rulers of India over centuries but they are not worked up about it day in day out.

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the Hindu version of how they where treated in India is different to the Muslims version.

As for all hindus being members of bjp or vhp or whatever other organisation, i agree lot of people hindu and muslims busy trying to survive and dont get mixed with these kind of hatred groups however this debate started when someone mentioned hindus have no hatred for muslims and i pointed out the examples where this is not true, that is all.