RE: 2012

I have to admit that when I first heard about the issue of the kaaba in the movie 2012, I was a bit perturbed. One reason being that the director’s main motivation for not destroying it was to avoid a fatwa. However, I was also unsettled because the idea of the kaaba being destroyed would make any Muslim squirm. I started to think about how in terms of Islamic eschatology, the movie 2012 is essentially about the day of judgment, where everything on earth will be destroyed. I’m assuming that the kaaba will be destroyed as well. As Muslims, it is always good to be mindful that this life will come to an end. I wonder if such a scene ended up being included in the movie, if it wouldn’t do us good to recognize this idea in a bruising and visceral way. It was probably best to leave it out of the movie to keep the fatwa fanatics at bay, but I don’t think to include it would have been the end of the world. Ha.