<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/43ec3b43-4d3b-4cb0-9761-c4cfbfc9ff56/6F189AA8-3DD3-4356-9333-298AA996A818/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html" href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html" style="font-size: 11px;">movies.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html"><P> For "2012," Emmerich set his sites on destroying the some biggest landmarks around the world, from Rome to Rio. But there's one place that Emmerich wanted to demolish but didn't: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located in the center of Mecca. It's the focus of prayers and the site of the Hajj, the biggest, most important pilgrimage in Islam. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html"><P> "Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," the filmmaker told <A target="_blank" href="http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php">scifiwire.com</A>. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/movies.yahoo.com/img/FF922101-FD45-44FF-A500-F80430A9282C" alt="Director Roland Emmerich on the set of Columbia Pictures' 2012" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html"><BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class="article_photo no_link_right"> <IMG width="200" height="150" alt="Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/mo/pseudoblog_kaaba150.jpg" /> </DIV> 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." <A target="_blank" href="http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php">Read the full article &gt;&gt;</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6F189AA8-3DD3-4356-9333-298AA996A818/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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