France - Brigitte Bardot Convicted of Hate Speech

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Brigitte Bardot Convicted of Provoking Racial Hatred

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204196,00.html

Former French screen siren Brigitte Bardot was fined nearly $25,000 on Tuesday after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.

The court in Paris also ordered Bardot, 73, to pay $1,555 in damages to a leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP, the Associated Press reports.

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When did the "religion" of Islam become a race?