BRIGITTE BARDOT, sex icon turned animal rights activist, says she might be forced to emigrate because France has too many Muslim immigrants.
Ms Bardot's column in the conservative newspaper Le Figaro denounced immigrants in unusually virulent terms, highlighting her long campaign against the Muslim ritual slaughter of sheep.
Labelling herself "a French woman of old stock", the film star claims that with Gen Charles de Gaulle and the Eiffel tower, "I am perhaps the most famous French person in the world."
She pointed to her grandfather and father's battles against German invaders in two world wars, and to her own rejection of lucrative Hollywood offers during her "cinematic glory." Ms Bardot (61) wrote: "And now my country, France, my fatherland, my land, is, with the blessing of successive governments, again invaded by a foreign, especially Muslim, overpopulation to which we pay allegiance.
"We have to submit against our will to this Muslim overflow. Year by year, we see mosques springing up across Fiance, while our church bells fall silent because of a lack of priests," she added.
In 1992, Ms Bardot married her fourth husband, Mr Bernard d'Ormale, a friend and adviser of Mr Jean Marie Le Pen, the anti immigrant leader of the extreme right National Front.
Ms Bardot, who has given her name and support to an animal protection foundation, repeated in gory prose her condemnation of Muslim sheep slaughtering rituals doing the "atrocious" Aid el Kebir feast this weekend.
Aid el Kebir holiday commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at God's command. In the past, Ms Bardot has attacked the celebration of the feast in France by more than two million Muslims, mostly North African Arab immigrants'. Leaders of France's Muslim community have hit back, saying her attack was politically motivated.
This year, Islamic radio stations and mosque preachers have appealed to Muslims to use sites approved by French authorities for ritual slaughter and to abstain from unauthorised killing of sheep.
A thousand sheep will be sacrificed tomorrow at Bazochr suiGuyonne, a village west of Paris where Ms Bardot has a home. The village has been designated by local authorities as one of nine sites in the Yvelines department where between 5,000 and 6.000 sheep will be killed. Ms Bardot said yesterday she would not be at home tomorrow.
"Tens of thousands of poor beasts whose throats are slit with blades that are more or less sharpened, by clumsy sacrificers who have to repeat their gesture several times, while kids splashed, with blood bathe in this magma of terror of blood squirting from badly slit jugulars", she wrote.
After quoting the 19th century, novelist Emile Zola on the love humans owe to animals, Ms Bardot threatened to go into exile unless authorities acted on her grievances.
"Could I be forced in the near future to flee my country which has turned into a bloody and violent country, to turn expatriate, to try and find elsewhere, by myself becoming an emigrant, the respect and esteem which we are alas refused daily?
Three years ago, the screen legend had said that the extreme right wing, views of the man she married in 1992 could cause the break up of their marriage.