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 -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
