At the 89th annual Academy Awards Sunday night, a director from a dictatorial Islamist country set on destroying the West slammed the policies of the Trump administration as “inhumane” and threatening to world peace. It is the division of the world “into the us and our enemies categories,” he said, that is a “deceitful justification for aggression and war.”
Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director of The Salesman, the film that took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, chose not to attend the ceremony Sunday night in protest of Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven countries first flagged by the Obama administration as being high terror-risks. Though the ban is only temporary and designed to give immigration authorities time to tighten vetting procedures in order to better protect American citizens from future terror attacks, Farhadi decried the order as “inhumane” and its divisiveness as a dangerous prelude to “aggression.”
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