PARIS, April 26 — Former screen goddess Brigitte Bardot, now France’s best-known animal rights activist, Friday denounced what she said was a Muslim ‘invasion’ of France that may force her to emigrate. ‘My country, France, my homeland, is again invaded, with the blessing of successive governments, by an overflow of foreigners, particularly Muslims, to whom we pay allegiance,’ Bardot said in a column published in the newspaper Le Figaro.
‘Year after year we see mosques spring up everywhere in France, while our church bells fall silent for lack of priests,’ she wrote. Bardot also condemned the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep during the Aid-el-Kebir festival, which she said involves ‘tens of thousands of poor beasts having their throats slashed in front of each other with knives that are roughly sharpened by clumsy sacrificers who must try several times… ‘Will I be forced in the near future to flee my country, which has become a bloody, violent place, to emigrate, to try and find elsewhere.. the respect and esteem which is, alas, daily refused us?’ she asked.
An anti-racist organization described Bardot’s statement as ‘repugnant, nauseous and unacceptable’ and said it ‘reserves the right to take appropriate legal action. This racist provocation shows… a disturbing trend in our society,’ it said. Bardot, 61, quit the movies in 1973 and has since devoted herself to an animal rights foundation that bears her name.
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