[StBernard] Now this is disgusting...

[Westley Annis]

The director of the film 2012, Roland Emmerich was asked about all the
buildings and things that were "destroyed" in the film and the one thing
that wasn't:



For "2012," Emmerich set his sites on destroying the some biggest landmarks
around the world, from Rome to Rio. But there's one place that Emmerich
wanted to demolish but didn't: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located
in the center of Mecca. It's the focus of prayers and the site of the Hajj,
the biggest, most important pilgrimage in Islam. 

"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," the filmmaker told
scifiwire.com <http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php> .
"But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head
because of a movie.' And he was right." 


Emmerich went on: "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."




link to article:

http://tinyurl.com/yjln2vj




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