Daniels: Arab Culture Promotes Peace
At the Dubai International Film Festival, where he was head of the jury, director Lee (“The Butler”) Daniels made a discovery: ‘What I’ve learned is that I’ve been brainwashed. I have been brainwashed since a child about the Arabic culture,” he said. Daniels claimed that the view of Arabic culture presented to him in the U.S. was not one of peace. “But I’ve learned there are peaceful people. And the injustices and the atrocities that have happened are insurmountable. That America does not lend the support that they should. And it’s not right.” Just remember, Lee: you’re gay, and homosexuality is illegal, with harsh punishments, in Dubai and virtually all other countries in the Middle East. How peaceful is that? Lee is getting ready to shoot a Richard Pryor biopic, in which his good buddy Oprah will play Pryor’s prostitute grandmother.
