“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.”
scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php
Humm; I saw the movie with all it’s superfluous Hollywood glitter and fanfare. The movie wreaks of secular humanism in telling it’s secular version of the Apocalypse. Emmerich to me is obviously Anti-Catholic.
Here’s a critical review of the movie that is worth the read:
catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0390.htm