World Net Daily: Filmmaker admits intimidation by Islam

"'Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit,' Emmerich said. 'But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] 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,' he said."

Just offend those who you know will not kill you.