Afraid of a fatwa - one location is spared in the movie 2012 -trailer

November 4, 1:47 PMChristian Worldview ExaminerBill Belew

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There is one place that gets spared in the end-of-the-world flick '2012.'

It's not St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican or Christ the Redeemer statue that looms over Rio de Janeiro or the three giant crosses on the hill in the East Bay.

The director, Emmerich, said: "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."

That being said, Emmerich spared the Kaaba.

Afraid of a fatwa, Emmerich let go on the rest of the world but not the focus of prayers for the biggest pilgrimage in Islam.

See - People, People, Everywhere – Which is more? Chinese Looking for a Job or Indians on a Pilgrimage to Hajj.

A fatwa is a religious opinion that could come out in the form of a death sentence. Think Salman Rushdie.

Apparently, some locations asked to be trashed - Taiwan's Taipei 101 for example. Good for business, no doubt.

Interesting that Christians do not place value on objects or locations the way other religions do. At least Christians should NOT place such important on things. See Acts 17:22-24

Emmerich went on to say, "Well, I wanted to do that (destroy the Kaaba), I have to admit," he told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right."