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Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Brigitte Bardot - One Suicide-Bombing, Motherfucking Racist Bitch
I'm reading tonight that Brigitte Bardot is up for the fifth time – yes, you read that correctly, fifth – for "inciting racial hatred", said "racial hatred" being, apparently, a dislike of Muslims and, specifically, the influx of Muslims into France.
As an animal rights activist she doesn't like their habit of slaughtering sheep for religious festivals, but I am also 'reliably' informed by the same news bulletin that she "published a book attacking gays, immigrants and the unemployed, in which she also lamented the "Islamisation of France"."
Waaaaaaay! Go long, Brigitte, go long! You've got to admire that. Not just the Muslims but throwing in the gays and the unemployed too. I like someone dedicated to their dislike, irrational or otherwise.
There seems to me to be something deeply ironic in the fact that she keeps finding her ass in court (the prosecutor is quoted as being "a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot") when the internet is wall to wall – or ether to ether perhaps – hatred of just about every kind, colour and depth you can imagine, but nobody seems to be doing very much to stop any of that.
Could it be (say not so) that it's easy to target Ms Bardot whose fat, rich ass is up there for all to see – and line their pockets with. I mean, on the inciting racial hatred front, a mad Frenchwoman (and let's fact it – that's what we think of her, isn't it?) who lives reclusively with her cats, wittering on about animal rights, isn't exactly going to whip up a feeding frenzy of Nazis, is she?
Can you see Brigitte storming through her retirement community on her Zimmer frame, yelling for the partisans to take to the streets and lynch them a few towel-heads?
So I think it's alright for Brigitte to whip up racial hatred?
I don't know – do you think it's alright for the National Enquirer to whip up Britney hatred? Or the world and his dog to whip up fat hatred? How about Eddie Murphy's hatred? I think Norbit pretty much whips up fat and women hatred. How about taking Norbit to court?
Oh, that doesn't count, that's entertainment. Well, for all you know Brigitte laughs her guts out when she's writing bad shit about Islam – is she not allowed to be entertained?
I'm only asking because I wonder why she isn't allowed to vent her spleen on a group's blood-thirsty religious practices when it's okay for everyone on the web to hate an individual for markedly bloodless brolly-bashing. I know if I was standing before God I'd rather take my chances on justifying whipping up hatred against slaughtering sheep than hitting cars with brollies.
Unless, of course, it was the old testament God. In which case I'd recommend telling him you rounded up every whoring little slut from here to Memphis and the hell with a few sheep. I'd say the old testament God is more in line with the Muslims any day, and it surprises me he hasn't struck Brigitte down before now – the fat slut (two strikes right there).
Am I the only person in the world that finds it odd that Brigitte indulging in a little reactionary (or heartfelt) disgust for the ways of Islam is prosecutable, but that Islam strutting around, often in someone else's country, screaming the odds about our behaviour (those slutty women again) and inciting just about anybody to take up arms against the infidel, doesn't seem to find itself in court?
Oh sure, if they build a few bombs, get a gathering of local dentists (why do they always seem to be innocuous dentists? Is it a sadism gene?) to talk about the next suicide mission, we whip their asses into court, but talking, or even writing about it? I don't think so. We have to respect their religion, you see. Doesn't do to offend someone's religion.
Well, I don't know about you, but I've never seen an offended religion. I've seen some damn antsy papists in my time, and some downright vicious protestants, but an offended religion? Not in my lifetime.
What I can't stand about this is the rampant double standard.
Let me give you a very specific personal right-on-your-doorstep example.
About a year after I came to Aberdeen I was in a thrift store. It didn't belong to a high street charity; it was just entitled Charity Shop on the sign. It was a big, clean shop with lots of donated goodies (it still is – it's still there, thriving away). Behind the counter was an 'Asian' man of indeterminate origin, but he looked Middle Eastern, not Indian or Pakistani. I paid no particular attention to him, being drawn, as usual, to the jewellery cabinet. I asked to see a couple of pieces and he stood talking to me, perfectly affably and politely friendly.
He went into the back shop after a while and I realised I could hear an odd tape playing in there – odd because it was part in Arabic and then in English.
After a while of eavesdropping it became apparent that what I was listening to was a translation, rather like a French lesson – écouter et répetér (listen and repeat for those of you who hated French). I, being me, and always caught on oddity, started concentrating on what was being said and discovered a whole new world I wasn't sure I had ever really believed in until that moment – me being a good woolly liberal and all.
This was a 'sermon' by a religious leader. He was extolling young men to be careful in their 'ministry', when trying to follow the ways of Allah, that they were not seduced by the women of their 'enemies'. He actually used the word enemies. He wrote a whole imaginary scenario for his keen young disciples, visualising them finding these poor women wandering the streets, 'orphaned' by combat and suggesting that they might take them in out the goodness of their hearts – but that they shouldn't. They should beware of this "temptation", because their 'enemies' had sent these dangerous women in amongst them, to lead them into sin and vice, so that they would stray from Allah.
Now, putting this into a real world context, what he was actually saying was, "In our 'holy war' you will find women, destitute, traumatised, wandering homeless in the streets without help and family. You should ignore your natural human tendencies to be a good Samaritan, because remember, your enemy will attempt to seduce you, because, let's face it, he's Satan. So don't be kind, and don't do good, because your enemy doesn't deserve it. And, anyway, enemy women are sluts."
Such is the magnanimous heart of religion. Founded on moral principles my ass. Anything that extols unkindness to people in need is neither good, charitable, nor godly. Unless, of course, he is that old testament God that we all fear so much – the wrathful, punitive one that always seems to want you to "take up thy word and slew mine enemy". Why doesn't he slew his own enemies if he's so damn powerful?
But the long and the short of it was that's where the money was going from anything I or anyone else bought in that shop. The bloke in the shop was perfectly nice and affable, but he still considered me the 'enemy' and that as a woman I'd be likely sent to try and seduce him and other good Allah fearing men off the path of righteousness. If I was in pain or distress he wouldn't lift a hand to help me – his preacher had told him not to. And he was listening to this bilge masquerading as righteousness in full hearing of a shop full of (at that moment) white people (aka 'enemies') like myself.
He obviously saw nothing wrong with that. After all, he was just practicing his religion and he has a right to that.
But what I want to know is this – why doesn't he, or the many like him, find himself hauled into court with Brigitte Bardot for "inciting racial hatred"? Perhaps because he's not famous and rich?
No. That would be wrong.
After all, he wasn't fat.
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