HUMAN RIGHTS PHONIES – AT 9:18 A.M. ET:  Urgent Agenda's intelligent, informed readership knows that "human rights" is one of the most twisted, misused phrases around.  "Human rights advocates" too often turn out to be old leftists spouting the "human rights" mantra from one side of their mouths, while defending the world's worst dictatorships from the other. 

Nowhere is the problem worse than in Hollywood, where phoniness is a way of life.  Believe me.  I've worked there.  You would sometimes yearn for someone who would just tell the truth about what he had for lunch. 

Andrew Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" has the story of the movie industry's latest flirtation with utter hypocrisy and fraudulent concern for "human rights."  It involves one of their own:

Afshan Azad, 22, who plays Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” film series remains in hiding. She refused to appear in a London court and press charges, no doubt because she knows there’s no way the British police can protect her. It is open Islamic season on Ms. Azad.

What has she done to bring down the wrath of Allah? Ms. Azad’s boyfriend is Hindi, a non-Muslim...

...Just so we understand what’s going on: this is the norm in the Muslim world. Women who dare enter a relationship with non-Muslims are fair game for an honor killing, usually proceeded by various forms of unspeakable torture.

Hollywood reacts to the horror.  Not:

You would think that Ms. Azad’s case would sweep through Hollywood like a prairie fire, with celebrities stepping forward to condemn Islam’s war against women and offer support to this unfortunate young actress and the millions of Muslim women who live in perpetual fear of their lives. And hey, Hollywood is stuffed with card carrying feminists. So doesn’t it make sense that western women—specifically liberals who are always lecturing cave dwelling conservatives about social justice and human rights—would surge forward like an angry wave in support of their sister?

But gee willikers, listen to the silence...

...talk to film people about the oppression of women in the Muslim world, specifically honor killings, and you’ll be met with either blank stares or a stumbling explanation about the moral complexities of judging third world cultures.

In short, western liberals in Hollywood and elsewhere, most notably so-called feminists, have abandoned the human rights of Muslim women in the name of multicultural gibberish. It’s okay to let women be slaughtered by their fanatic families because we, as depraved western oppressors, have no right to tell the natives how to live.

Finally...

And now that one of Hollywood’s own, Afshan Azad, 22, a fine young actress, is in hiding because her father and brother are determined to murder her, well, I’m sure Hollywood will sigh with compassion, and then move on because the part can always be recast.

This moral nothingness perfectly compliments the barbarism of the Islamist world. One cannot survive without the other. They are, in clinical terms, enablers.

COMMENT:  Another term would be "collaborators."  The phoniness, of course, extends well beyond Hollywood, and into the academic world, also silent about the horrors experienced by Muslim women.  It isn't part of the script, not part of the party line. 

I actually heard, with my own ears, people in Hollywood say about five years ago that they wouldn't take a stand against Muslim oppression because that would "help Bush."  I kid you not.  With my own ears.

Those are the people who are feeding "entertainment" to our kids.

December 24, 2010