# How extreme would this practice be among muslims? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 8, 2015, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538 "2015-05-08T09:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538/1 "2015-05-08T09:00:26Z")
I can recall years ago reading a blog written by a muslim woman who was home schooling her kids. She mentioned how she kept every book or text bought for them in the garage, and before bringing it into the house she would cut out every depiction of a person or living thing?(I don’t remember exactly). She mentioned how exhausting this was, and how prevalent it was in childrens books/texts etc. How extreme would this be considered by mainstream Islam? I’m curious because other than the Koran I don’t really have a reference. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538/2 "2015-05-08T09:05:12Z")
Extreme. Towards a lunatic level. Even the extremists (ISIS, AQ, Al Sahab, Boko Haram etc) have embraced modern technology as a means of spreading their message across, have you seen their videos lately. So while many extremists may decry depiction of living things in theory, in practice even they have long since “converted”. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538/3 "2015-05-08T17:27:11Z")
I’ve heard (cite: vaguley somewhere) that the prohibition is more against art, such as drawings, rather than photos. There was even a comment that the original KFC Colonel was ‘okay’, because that was a picture (made from a photograph), not a cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538/4 "2015-05-08T17:35:12Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Extreme. Towards a lunatic level. Even the extremists (ISIS, AQ, Al Sahab, Boko Haram etc) have embraced modern technology as a means of spreading their message across, have you seen their videos lately. > > So while many extremists may decry depiction of living things in theory, in practice even they have long since “converted”. How common would it be to see something like that in a Mosque? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-extreme-would-this-practice-be-among-muslims/719538/5 "2015-05-08T17:56:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How common would it be to see something like that in a Mosque? If you mean depictions of animals and humans in Mosques, then none. But mosques tend to be spartan affairs anyway (I am talking S Asia), with calligraphy at the maximum (outside of large “state mosques”, like the ones made to be monuments). I have seen pictures of people, often benefactors, or locals who were killed on active service, on occasion, but never in the prayer hall.