I think this is worth a vote. "The movie 2012 shows the whole world collapsing – many monuments falling and rolling. As a Muslim, would you like to include the destruction of Islamic monuments (e.g. Kaba) in this movie?"
I'll ask Roba or Naseem to ask this 
[I don't support polling yet]
[I don't support polling yet]Emmerich: "Well, I wanted to do that [show the destruction of Kaba], 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."
Emmerich went on: "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."
November 11th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I saw your post and it has been a thought in the back of my mind for some time.
I am all for artistic expression, but don’t like images of sacred sites being destroyed. Heck, I didn’t even like seeing the White House destroyed in Independence Day, and it is not sacred, by symbolic.
I read that the statue of Christ will be destroyed, and although He is not increased or diminished by a statue, I think it is unnecessary.
The whole ‘let’s not provoke the Muslims because they may kill someone’ is a slam to Muslims. It creates resentment from non-Muslims too, which is not good for perceptions of Islam.
As a Christian, it makes me wonder if the only way our things held sacred would be respected is to make such threats too. Do only threats of violence earn respect? Or is fear-based respect so rooted in resentment it will only blow up in violence itself some day?
It also makes me a little crazy that a certain segment of media assumes anyone who believes their faith is true is an extremist.
Sadly, our extremists have begun to define us, and it really is time we go the extra mile to put a lid on them.