WASHINGTON, May 12 (IslamOnline) - Brigitte Bardot, a former French film star and animal rights activist, has failed to overturn a conviction for inflaming racial hatred against Muslims.
The French Appeals court upheld her previous conviction on Thursday.
Bardot was fined 30,000 francs in June 2000 after being convicted on racial hatred charges for a third time.
The Islamaphobe actress, in an article titled Open Letter to My Lost France, had written, "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."
Her articles, which appeared in her book Le Carre de Pluton (Pluto's Square), also criticized the slaughter of sheep on Eid-ul-Adha.
Bardot's first conviction was in 1997 when the same text appeared that year. she was duly fined for that incident as well..
Her second conviction came in 1998 when she deplored the growing number of mosques in France "while our church-bells fall silent for want of priests".
