George Clooney is calling for a boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel and others owned by Sultan of Brunei over the small nation's antigay laws.
anyone charged with adultery or homosexuality, in accordance with sharia law, beginning Wednesday.
The loudest critic of Clooney so far: Bill Maher, as vocal a liberal as any, but one not afraid to challenge liberal orthodoxy. On Friday, he ridiculed the action the actor was calling for. “People can smell it,” the conservative writer Andrew Sullivan chimed in. “It’s just virtue signaling. It’s just: ‘Look at me. I’m so … great.’”
Celebrities protested then and called for a boycott, and the city of Beverly Hills approved a resolution urging the sultan to sell the hotel. But no stonings occurred, and the issue faded quickly. In the global economy, it was hard to focus on a country with a population smaller than Long Beach’s while autocratic nations like Saudi Arabia — with similar sharia laws on the books — had deep corporate ties to all sorts of American companies.
“There is a social contract that exists between the kingdom and the people, and that’s sacrosanct,” said Mustafa Izzuddin, a fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, a think tank in Singapore. Some see the sharia law push as an attempt to quiet dissent while shoring up the support of a largely conservative citizenry.
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