Hotel Hitler, aka the Beverly Hills Hotel

I rarely boycott establishments based on politics.  No one shares my politics completely, and it doesn't make sense to insist that I will only do business with people who share most or all of my views.  But, when things get bad enough, it becomes a moral obligation to boycott.

I'm talking here about the Sultan of Brunei, the dictator of a small oil-rich nation in South East Asia.  The self-styled Sultan recently passed a law calling for the stoning to death of gays.  Frankly, that comes as no surprise.  The Sultan has always held fundamentalist Islamic views, which include treating women and non-Muslims as second class citizens, among other things. 

The Sultan also owns the Dorchester Hotel chain, which includes both the Bel Air Hotel and the Beverly Hills Hotel.  Would you spend money at a Dorchester Hotel, knowing whom you are doing business with?  Would your answer be different if you knew that the hotel were owned by Adolf Hitler?  Where do you draw the line?  It can be difficult to do so, but not this time. 

Boycott the Dorchester Hotel chain!