On OpinionJournal.com, the editorial website of The Wall Street Journal, Bridget Johnson has a piece entitled “Look Who Isn’t Talking: A filmmaker is murdered, and Hollywood loudmouths say nothing” that discusses the film industry’s silence in the wake of the murder of documentarian Theo van Gogh:

One would think that in the name of artistic freedom, the creative community would take a stand against filmmakers being sent into hiding à la Salman Rushdie, or left bleeding in the street. Yet we’ve heard nary a peep from Hollywood about the van Gogh slaying. Indeed Hollywood has long walked on eggshells regarding the topic of Islamic fundamentalism. The film version of Tom Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears” changed Palestinian terrorists to neo-Nazis out of a desire to avoid offending Arabs or Muslims. The war on terror is a Tinsel Town taboo, even though a Hollywood Reporter poll showed that roughly two-thirds of filmgoers surveyed would pay to see a film on the topic.

I found myself nodding in agreement, and that was before I saw that the article contained a brief mention of Brainwashing 101.