On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:08:15 +0100, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vic Mortelmans" > Subject: Street photography - religious objections > > >> Hi, > >> Today I was at a public street community fair (kind of garage sail) >> taking some pictures. Again: not framing individual people, but just >> catching the environment. Since we live in a multi-cultural city, I >> happened to frame a sale stand where a family of muslim people was >> looking around. One of the women directly signaled me that she opposed >> to have a picture taken. I know that this is forbidden by the islam >> religon. > > Are you sure about that? > It seems to me the Muslims can't organize themselves sufficiently to > figure out which hand to wipe their arses with, much less if someone can > take pictures of them. From what I see and read, this is the one area of agreement! The big problem with Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran is the actual word of God, and therefore must be correct and must be taken literally. Unfortunately, the Koran is full of contradictions. One surah says love your neighbour, the next says kill him if he is an unbeliever. You can't tell a Muslim that because he will say: "Did you read the Koran in Arabic?". When you confess that you read it in translation, he will say, "That's not the Koran". Muslims cannot admit that the Koran could contain errors or contradictions, so they will not brook any discussion on the subject with non-believers. Within Islam, of course, these contradictions, and debate over whether and how far to model oneself on Mohammed and the way he lived his life, give rise to the various sects and schisms which make the world the exciting place it is today. Like Bob W, I have had an Arab girl friend (see May 05 PUG), and you could not find (or I could not find) a more charming, normal, and civilised human being. Generalising about Muslims is as futile as generalising about any large, diverse, group. John -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
