The effect of Islamic terrorism…one that Islamists and Muslims of all stripes leverage to their advantage…via Weasel Zippers:
Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012.
The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro because he is “against organised religion”, he was fearful of the Islamic religious decree for a sequence that was planned but not shot.
The 53-year-old wanted to demolish the Kaaba, which is a cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca and is the centre of prayers and the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage.
He told Sci-Fi Wire: “Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit. But my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. We have to all in the Western world think about this.
“You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.
“So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.”
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November 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Well, I think I’ll have to give him credit for giving an explanation beforehand instead of sneaking it into the theaters. Of course he could’ve displayed balls and included both scenes
November 8, 2009 at 6:08 AM
maybe having to leave the Mecca scene out (and publicly say as much!) is a more powerful and telling message about the true nature of too many of Islam’s followers anyway!
November 14, 2009 at 6:50 AM
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December 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Ummm, how is this a big deal?
Everyone is going crazy over the fact that Mecca wasn’t destroyed in the movie.
Neither was the great wall of china, the pyramids, the mayan temples, new york city, the statue of liberty, the leaning tower of Pisa, that holy wall in israel.
So why is this such a huge deal?
I just can’t understand why this part is the most discussed about this movie!
So to sum it up, nobody in the middle east said anything – the writers decided not to do it, yet the blame falls upon mid-easterns. You people need to put your energy on other things :P.
December 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM
ever heard of Theo van Gogh? Ayaan Hirsi Ali? Geert Wilders? Salmon Rushdie? you need to put your energy into researching reality before exuding blissful ignorance