2012 movie director feared fatwa if he depicted destruction of Muslim holy sites

These past couple weeks there has been discussion here about how Muslim's get a free pass from popular critique and any slight form of defamation, yet there is no restraint on Christian bashing by those who hypocritically espouse tolerance. Here's the latest installment of tip-toeing around Islam while Christianity gets leveled…

In his new movie 2012, director Roland Emmerich depicts the destruction of all sorts of world landmarks from the White House to Christian holy places like St. Peter's Basilica.  But, Emmerich admits he thought about including the destruction of Mecca or another Muslim landmark but he steered miles away from anything Islamic for fear of a fatwa…

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."

Fear of a fatwa?  I thought Islam was a religion of peace?