Bold. Daring. Edgy.
Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012.
The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro because he is “against organised religion”, he was fearful of the Islamic religious decree for a sequence that was planned but not shot.
The 53-year-old wanted to demolish the Kaaba, which is a cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca and is the centre of prayers and the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage.
And he’s absolutely correct. He’d get his ass fatwa’d faster than Salman Rushdie in a Jewish brewery. He openly and freely acknowledges that you can get away with dire insults to Christian symbolism that you just can’t even consider where the so-called “religion of peace” is concerned.
I think it’s safe to assume most of Hollywood and, indeed most of the Left, understands this. They, who hold their creative freedoms above all other considerations, voluntarily rein them in where Islam is concerned. And yet...and yet. They still insist that Christianity and its proponents are the greater evil.
I’d write them off as chickenshits, but chickenshit is actually useful and I’ve got the garden to prove it.
If you’ve the time to read it, I recommend Instapunk’s take on another aspect of the Hollywood/Islam intersection.
apotheosis, wasteland legend 
