( CNN ) -- Imagine a place where police use online dating services to entrap and arrest gay men . Or a country that arrests a 14-year-old girl for adultery and then performs an invasive `` virginity test '' on her . Or where a woman is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery . Hollywood celebrities are rightly outraged to discover that places like this exist , and they 're showing it by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel , owned by an investment group of the Sultan of Brunei 's , to protest his country 's new Sharia laws against homosexuality and adultery . Brunei is merely a newcomer on the scene . It joins 81 other countries where homosexuality is illegal . And , sadly , it 's hardly the only place in the world where adultery is punishable by death . But the place I was talking about before , where homosexuals are arrested and deported , and adulterers are sentenced to stoning , was n't Brunei . It was the United Arab Emirates , a favorite destination and filming location for wealthy Hollywood celebrities . Remember `` Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol '' ? That was filmed in Dubai . Justin Timberlake will perform in Abu Dhabi this month . Jennifer Lopez performed in Dubai in March . The last `` Fast & Furious , '' No . 7 , is reportedly filming there right now . George Clooney , Ben Affleck , the Kardashians -- have all been popular guests of the money-soaked Emirates . Opinion : Why stone them for who they love ? And the money flows both ways . Abu Dhabi Media , wholly owned by the United Arab Emirates , has invested hundreds of millions in American film companies . In 2012 , for example , its subsidiary , Image Media Abu Dhabi , financed a new movie starring Matt Damon called `` Promised Land , '' about the evils of hydraulic fracking . That 's right -- an anti-fracking movie was subsidized by the oil-rich UAE . You got ta love Hollywood . It 's unclear how far Brunei will go in enforcing its newly adopted Sharia lawâ€ ” and there are few instances in recent years of the UAE actually carrying out Sharia punishments , such as flogging . But the laws allowing such sentences are on the books . Whereas it 's unlikely most Hollywood celebrities could locate Brunei on a map ( it shares the huge island of Borneo with Malaysia and Indonesia ) , I bet many know their way to Dubai . Will they boycott the United Arab Emirates , with its glitzy , Hollywood-friendly hotels , star-studded film festival , picturesque shooting locations and oil-rich investment money , if they know its politics are similarly intolerant ? Brunei is a little too exotic , far away and easy to avoid . And while much closer to home , so is the Beverly Hills Hotel . I 'm sure there are plenty of other venues willing to host movie premieres , record launch parties and Lindsay Lohan 's entourage . So rather than Hollywood celebrities boycotting a Los Angeles hotel -- in the town where they live , no less -- putting hundreds of American workers out of work , they should get to know the inconvenient truths about the world they live in and put their money where their mouths are .
SE Cupp : UAE boycotting Beverly Hills Hotel owned by Brunei sultan 's investment group . Cupp : UAE now has Sharia law , but celebs happy to make repressive UAE a destination . UAE punishes homosexuality , adultery can bring death -- yet nobody makes movies there . Cupp : If celebs want to oppose repression , shun foreigners , not local hotel employing U.S. workers .