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Here is the information I read:

Director Roland Emmerich who seems to be adept in directing movies that emphasize global doom like Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow. The movie “2012” takes the destruction to a whole other level, destroying some of the world’s most well known landmarks including the Vatican, the White House and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero. There is one place that was not destroyed: 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."

I’m just curious to see what opinions are about this. I’d love to especially hear from Atheists/Agnostics who may not be as furious as some Christians are.

I’m not playing sides either way, I just found it interesting….

The movie pisses me of, nonetheless. It is an attempt to create panic. If they destroy religious symbols, that will only increase panic. I’d say what I truly think, but yahoo would censor my freedom of speech…

Posted November 12th, 2009 under Hajj Information. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.