Other countries are already taking part in boycotts, i hope the USA follows suit.

A few weeks ago one of the hunts was called off cause there was no demand…but of course the murdering scum went out a week later to club some seals for “samples”….really frickin LAME.

Where is Patrick Moore, the once president of the Greenpeace Foundation who was the one to make way for Brigitte joining their organization during that first seal hunt protest so many years ago?

He’s too busy advocating nuclear power, that’s where he is.

So how about Patrick, how do you reconcile your animal rights activism with killing millions of fish every year in nuclear reactor river water cooling system uptakes?

I don’t know what Barack Obama (or Nicolas Sarkozy for that matter) can do about sealing laws in another sovereign country, but the sentiment is sure nice.

VeggieTart…the US is Canada’s largest trading partner. I’m sure there is plenty Obama could do to help end the slaughter if he so chose.

Adnan Y…I stand corrected. I should have done a better search.

Maelstrom: No worries.

Back to the main topic, though:

Back in the UK, a trawlerman’s gotten in trouble with the law for his own brutal killing of seal pups. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/25/wildlife-scotland

Adnan, although I do not defend racist antics, the fact remains you are putting words into Mme. Bardot’s mouth. You might like to think “Muslims” is shorthand for “brown folks”, but the fact is that’s NOT what Mme. Bardot said.

Remember, Barack Obama, the person to whom Mme. Bardot has made this impassioned plea on behalf of the animals, is a “brown fellow” of African ancestry, and even though Mme. Bardot associates with some politically questionable figures, the same can be said of President Obama–in fact, HE IS a politically questionable figure in his own right.

“Foreigners” whose “Muslim” beliefs bring so-called “culture” that harms animals is of course going to upset Mme. Bardot. Also, put the shoe on the other foot–if a foreigner went to live in Saudi Arabia or Iran, I’m certain that person would be told to follow the “when in Rome, do as Romans do” principle. It’s funny how Muslims do whatever the hell they want anywhere in the world and scream “racism” (religion is a CHOICE, not an ethnic identity!)when someone says “you can’tdo that in this country!”, but if you were a non-Muslim living in an Islamic state, your life would be made very difficult by the majority culture, I assure you.

I can tell by the quote you’ve used, Adnan, you haven’t actually read Mme. Bardot’s book (the REAL original source of the quote, not BBC and Reuters). I haven’t read her book, either, but until I do, I’m going to steady myself and read the whole thing in context. Yes, her comments can be troubling when you first read them, until you realise they’ve been taken out of context. This little quote has been floating around the Internet for years…can’t people find anything more incriminating? Mme. Bardot is simply expressing concern over a foreign culture having a negative impact on her work as an animal rights activist.

The fact Islam is practiced largely by “brown folks” is not her fault.
What do you want her to do: not be critical of Islamic culture for the sake of being “politically correct”? It sounds to me as if someone is playing the “race card”.

By the way, Adnan, as an apostate from Islam who is now a vegan, you’d be a hero to Mme. Bardot, regardless of the colour of your skin. She would have tremendous praise for your common sense, despite you being a “brown folk”.

I’m not saying Brigitte Bardot is perfect–nobody is–but I’m getting a little fed up with people who have a persecution complex. Secular countries provide a tremendous amount of amnesty for Muslim foreigners–the same cannot be said for Muslim countries providing a safe haven for non-Muslims.