• Animal rights activist and former sex symbol Brigitte Bardot was charged in a Paris court on April 15, 2008 for "inciting discrimination and racial hatred" against Muslims.

  On June 3, 2008, she was fined for the fifth time over inciting racial hatred.

• Fast Facts

  1. 2008: Fined $23,000
  2. 2004: Stated in her book A Cry In The Silence that she "opposed the Islamisation of France"
  3. During the 1990s Bardot outspokenly criticized immigration, Islam in France, and homosexuality

• Sarkosy Letter

  Bardot wrote a letter to then interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy in December of 2006 protesting the customary method of slaying sheep during the Muslim festival of Aid El-Kebir.

  French prosecutors sought a two-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of $23,000 for Bardot's discrimination.

• Quote From Bardot's Letter

  1. "We're fed up with being led around by this whole population which is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts." —Brigitte Bardot, Reuters

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