Posted on 11/04/2009 12:32:17 PM PST by lado
When I interviewed director Roland Emmerich a few months ago about his upcoming disaster flick "2012," the first question I asked was, "Why do you like killing the world?" His response: "It makes for a good story."
Over the past fifteen years, Emmerich has crafted some great tales about global doom, featuring some spectacular scenes of destruction. He had aliens zap the White House in "Independence Day," he let a massive lizard flatten New York City in "Godzilla," and he sent killer tornadoes through downtown Los Angeles in "The Day After Tomorrow."
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."
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People who get their way through intimidation and fear should be expelled, deported, sent back to where they hatched.
Well, isn’t he a brave one - so much for artistic integrity - it falls to the corrosive power of militant Islam. Welcome to Dhimmitude!
Too bad, in Independence Day the White House got destroyed, we Americans can take it I guess.
He could have left Vatican city standing - or was he afraid of those vicious sign-waving Christians going out in the streets calling for his head and yelling death to him, and putting a Fat Wah on his head?
Gosh, I’m conflicted about this. His movies are pretty bad. Maybe the Muhammadans can narrow their fatwa to the actual movie reels themselves....you know...blow them up in a stadium, sort of like that White Sox thing and the disco records...........just a thought....
If the muslim world is the only place on Earth not destroyed (yeah right, they’d blow themselves up first), I will not mind at all not being here.
May not get him off the hook. Just thinking about nuking Mecca is probably enough to get you fatwaed.
Communism and Islamicism both seemed to benefit from paranoia.
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