William Robb 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. > > If the laws of your jurisdiction allow you to take pictures in the > place, then you can take pictures. > > Morally, you may have a different opinion, and common courtesy dictates > that you don't take a picture of someone who objects. >
Remember that Islam resembles the Protestant side of things, not the Orthodox or Catholic side of things with a strong heirarchy (Anglican's are technically Orthodox, not Protestant, from a theological point of view). And if you get 2 Protestants, you've got 3 mutually contradictory sects. (you also get the Sola Scriptura issue as well with some forms of Islam) -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
