When the world ends in the year 2012 (movie version, that is), guess what doesn’t get blowed up? It’s not St. Peters. It’s not the Sistine Chapel. It’s not Christ the Redeemer in Brazil. We’ll get to see all of those Christian symbols destroyed. But you KNOW what we won’t see destroyed, and you KNOW why. Director Roland Emmerich explains why he and the rest of the crew are singing soprano when it comes to showing the destruction of the kaaba:
“Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit,” Emmerich says. “But my co-writer Harald said I will not 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 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.”
The next time some Hollywood jerk-off preaches about how damned brave they are for taking on Chimpy McBushitler, or battling McCarthyism, I’m going to fly to L.A. and punch them in the face. In Will Ferrell’s case: twice.
The solution to winning the culture wars now seems obvious. Since the entertainment industry has no problem admitting that it won’t make a movie that will offend people who practice a form of censorship that used to be known as “murder”, Christians need to bring back the Spanish Inquisition. Every time some idiot pisses us off, we round them up, stretch them on a rack and crush them with heavy stones. (If I recall my Spanish Inquisition rules correctly, you can not shed blood, but stretching and crushing is just fine). Once we establish a track record, we can check this problem off the list.
Who’s with me?!
They will probably have a fatwa on their head for suggesting they would have a fatwa on their head if they had decided to pummel Mecca with a few hundred thousand tons of CGI tsunami waves.
Maybe that is the problem. We simply aren’t extreme enough. Perhaps a bit of violence and irrational behavior would garner us the Left’s respect? The way it works in modern day America if you:
a) bitch a whole lot
b) become very violent and start killing people and destroying property
You are not only left alone but usually given special treatment including but not limited to a month to recognize your group’s heritage and accomplishments. So I think this needs to be our strategy; lots of bitching and a whole lot of destruction.
Excellent point BH. I suppose I’ll have a fatwa for talking about it too – and now you’re drawn in to the web as well! Crap. Gonna have to turn ourselves in the religious police, which – by the by – in an official position in Saudi Arabia.
“Doggie” is the only official Saudi position, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do.
Fatwa, who doesn’t have one? Most of Hollywood wouldn’t know real courage even if it danced down the yellow brick road and roared in their faces.
It makes perfect logical sense. The glitch is that, unlike Islam, Christianity *is* a religion of peace, which commands us to love our enemies. It’s a Catch-22 that our enemies love to capitalize on. I don’t know of a solution that doesn’t violate our religion, other than actually trusting that there is, like, a God, and He actually is in charge and just wants us to be patient.
>>Who’s with me?>>
And we’re just the guys to do it…
Resolved: Roland Emmerich is a Nancyboy.
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That’s short for AnunciataBoy, right?
I saw the trailer for this at the show with my best gal and I must admit it was fun watching John Cusack nearly get killed about 20 times, but he was still alive at the end of the trailer so I don’t think I’ll buy a ticket for this one.
Fatwa-ttomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round…..
JS, we have standards here at Threedonia. Not many, but we do. And one of makes it a crime to post a comment more droll than anything Floyd would post.
Rufus will be mailing you his dirty socks.
Well… that beats Tie Your Ummah Down.
Computer generated destruction of landmarks and cities was revolutionary in 1996, when Emmerich gave it his first go around – by the time he got around to his global warming screed it was already passe. Aliens, climate change, Mayans – what difference does it make? It’s all CGI-induced masturbation – his computer is bigger than yours, in case you didn’t know. The only hope for 2012 is the coming thud that is Avatar, another outlandishly over-computerized product of self-stimulation. Maybe at the age of 34 I’m getting old, but I’d rather watch a stop-motion terminator crawl around on the floor than thousands of video-gamed gunships with no focus, no foreground and no soul.
All we hear is Muhammad caca…
Floyd, isn’t that supposed to be Tie Me Kafir-oo Down, Sport?
I’d like to see the practice of witch burning revived – perhaps we can start with the State Dept.
I don’t know. The Speaker’s Office and a really fugly Senator from Maine are also up for a witch investigation.
A new Inquisition? I don’t know, Christianity’s gotten so touchy-feely in the last 30 years that it would probably end up being like Eddie Izzard’s “cake or death” joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg
Hollywood is the new castrati.
That explains Leonardo DiCaprio! Was wondering about that.