The new movie, 2012 is about the potential destruction of the Earth due to a cracking of the surface. For shock value and special effects purposes, many religious shrines are seen destroyed, including; the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Christ the Redeemer Statue. But one religion’s icons are conspicuously omitted. I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count! That’s right, Islam! Coincidence? Not at all. In fact, we even have a confession on record from director, Roland Emmerich. Originally, he planned on destroying the Kaaba, (a cubical building in Mecca and most sacred of Muslim sites) but his friend and fellow screen writer, Harold Kloser persuaded him otherwise. Here is the quote, courtesy of of Sci Fi Wire and Cinematical.com:

“Well I wanted to do that…but my Co-Writer, Harold, said I will 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 like what the state of the world is. So it’s just something that I kind of didn’t think was an important element anyway in the film, so I kind of left it out.”

Look, I will never blame a director or anyone else for not wanting to put his life in danger. My only frustration is that even when such obvious words of justified fear are spoken, people continue with that stubborn but ludicrous notion about  Islam being a religion of peace. Either that, or the deeds of Islam are watered down with moral equivalency comparisons to Christianity. Good ol’ Rosie O’Donnell’s voice still lingers, “Listen, Militant Christianity is just as dangerous as Militant Islam.”

No it isn’t Rosie. If it were, people wouldn’t be afraid to destroy the Sistine Chapel in a movie but quake at the thought of demolishing a Muslim shrine, even for fictitious purposes.

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