That's only images of religious significance. Islam has no actual ban on images.
Now I'm aware that at least one strain of Orthodox Judaism does have such a ban, there was a court case over it a while back, where the subject of a street photograph in NYC sued the photographer based on his religious principles forbidding images of him. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > The prohibition against photography goes back to the prohibition against > graven images. It seems to be the most violated taboo ever. > > Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > >> Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> Where does Islam prevent people from having their picture taken? If so, >> what about all those portraits of Chomeini on every house wall in Iran? >> What about the portraits of religious and political leaders, "martyrs" >> and other people, carried along in every self-respecting muslim protest >> rallye? >> >> Besides, the problem is by no way restricted to particular ethnic >> groups. The number of buggers from all cultures and walks of life who're >> almost waiting to see someone point a camera in their general direction >> so they can take offense and make a lot of fuzz about it appears to be >> on a steep increase, lately. Let's be happy we've still known those >> days when people would perceive a photographer as a positive character >> rather than as a threat to their "privacy". >> >> Pity, really. >> >> Ralf >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
