I, for one, am not going to the new movie “2012” because of Roland Emmerich’s (the director) cowardice in not wanting to upset Muslims by not destroying Islam’s most holy site, while freely demolishing Christianity’s holiest sites. Here is a quote from an article about the director’s attitude about making this movie from Yahoo’s Movie Talk dated November 3, 2009:
”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. "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."[*]
(Author’s note: This attitude of submission and cowardice is the perfect way to perpetuate the problem and embolden and encourage radical Islam. Showing respect to Islam while showing no respect to Christianity, Judaism and other religions is going to be the West’s downfall, if not stopped.)
[wtp note: *The cowardice is palpable. At least Hollywood is no longer trying to pretend Real Men live there.]
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