Posted on 05/08/2014 10:44:19 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--The pink stucco palace known as the Beverly Hills Hotel has long been a symbol of Hollywood glamour and affluence, the place where Elizabeth Taylor decamped for six of her eight honeymoons. Now it's become the unlikely epicenter of protest against a new set of harsh laws enacted by the Islamic country of Brunei.
The opulent hotel is part of the Dorchester Collection, a luxury chain owned by the Sultan of Brunei. This week, the tiny, oil-rich southeast Asian country set off a storm of celebrity protests and boycotts by introducing Islamic laws that include death by stoning for homosexuals and adulterers.
Over the past several days, 20 events have been canceled at the Beverly Hills property--a loss of about $2 million in revenue for the hotel, according to Dorchester. Local politicians and celebrities are also boycotting the nearby Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, the hotel's more subdued sister property.
Big names like Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres are urging boycotts, and the Beverly Hills mayor and council are calling for Dorchester to sell the famed hotel.
Dorchester, which runs 10 hotels world-wide, is looking to expand globally and has said it is seeking to acquire a luxury property in New York. Hotel analysts say the publicity surrounding protests against the company could complicate efforts to operate a Manhattan hotel, where there is also opposition to the new law.
The participation of Hollywood's A-list in the boycott has been painful because the hotel has long been a see-and-be-seen spot to eat, sleep and fundraise. The hotel's Polo Lounge restaurant is one of this city's prime power-lunch spots. One event earlier this year attracted stars including Will Smith and Sandra Bullock. . .
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Hatred of Israel?
Or a vile hatred of (true) Catholic and (true) Christianity beliefs?
now, I’ve got a good feel for the today’s “hierarchy of hatred” as far as the liberal’s foreign policy goes. But what are Obama’s and his liberal cohort’s “hierarchy of hatred” on social issues?
I like your totem pole: pro-abortion does support several parts of their more fundamental anti-Catholic. anti-Christian, anti-religious needs. Just like anti-Israel supports several legs of their more open pro-Muslim/pro-atheist/pro-socialist/pro-Communist hierarchy of needs. Is anti-Israel higher than pro-Muslim?
Or does being anti-freedom AND anti-religious AND anti-Western AND anti-capitalist (anti-Jewish banker stereotype for example) AND pro-Muslim culture promote Israel above being anti-American?
Paging Satan, paging Satan...
two of your divisions are not following the battle plan.
Hatred of God and Christ is at the very top of the pole.
lol
Booko NoRoom?
It’s disgusting how women are treated by these creatures.
This protest has nothing to do with women, or how they are treated. Nothing.
It is about accepting the homosexual lifestyle.
Protests swell. And keen and nifty too.
See post #3
Yeah, but are they “groovy”?
So they are okay with the Islamic tenets of marrying 9 year old girls, the right to beat and rape women, stoning women who commit adultery, not allowing education for girls, but pissed off about not allowing homosexuality?
The modern liberal movement ladies and gentlemen...
The protestors would be doing the same thing if Billy Graham’s ministry or the Koch brothers owned the hotel.
I loves me the smell of muzzie napalm on the libtards' agenda in the morning...(not to mention midday, afternoon, evening, and late night as well)
Wonder if the dumbass libtards will figure out that all this "diversity is strength" bs is really not true when the metal meets the meat...
I am not holding my breath...
Not to mention how delightful it would be to see the libtards actually try to rise up against the monster they’ve created and get beaten to a bloody pulp over the defense of perversion and depravity...
When did the entire female genitalia begin to be called a vagina, which is an internal organ? Those costumes are labia, with the wearer’s head intended to represent the clitoris. They’re not vaginas.
Very good point.
I can't speak from experience but I heard an account from someone whose job was to process recruits into the Afghan army. He said; “There's so much male-on-male butt-fu+king going on in the Arab world they don't have a name for it.”
He said the practice isn't considered homosexual if there's no romance involved.
I would love to show up with binders there.
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