When Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh had his throat slit by an Islamist thug in downtown Amsterdam, Hollywood was silent. I’m sure it will remain silent after losing one of its own in the Amman atrocity:

Syrian-born Hollywood producer Moustafa Akkad - who was behind the Halloween horror films and the Anthony Quinn epic The Message - died on Friday of wounds sustained in the bombing.

His 33-year-old daughter Rima was killed in the blast.