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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bookahtoo, post: 95929, member: 31&quot;]I lived in Baghdad for a while as a kid. I remember this one shop we went to in the Zuk - typical etched brass trays, jewelry, old Bedouin silver, etc. But there were some old prints that had subject matter just like this - depictions of hideous torture methods and death. Of course my brother and I were fascinated (ages 10 and 11), but my parents didn&#039;t buy one. My parents DID buy a print that didn&#039;t show torture - a man riding through the air on some kind of creature. I&#039;ll take a picture of it tomorrow at Thanksgiving. </p><p>I believe Islam as a rule forbids the depiction of real objects, so......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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