Win Passes To 2012, And See What Other Religious Buildings They Wimped Out On Destroying
Well, which is it? I understand that living the Salman Rushdie lifestyle makes it difficult to hit on Melissa Rivers at red carpet events, so if you want to use the fatwa excuse that's certainly your right. But don't punk out at the end and try to make it sound like wiping out Mecca somehow wasn't integral to the plot.[T]he 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage. But after some consideration, he decided it might not be such a smart idea, after all.
"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich 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.
"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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