[Reader-list] Role-playing at a Karachi Madrassa

[yasir ~]

ajmal

are you letting them get away with bad acting by using the crutch of
prohibition on visual drama in orthodoxy (whatever that may mean) ? do
you think more tv will improve the visual quality over the long term ?

y

On 7/28/07, Ajmal Kamal <ajmalkamal at gmail.com> wrote:
> By Ajmal Kamal
>
 The "talk show" was organized more
> or less like the regular TV fare, although all kinds of images of human and
> other creatures are banned. Drama, as far as the visual representation goes,
> is a despised act in orthodox Islam. The result was that hardly any effort
> was made to make the players look like the roles they were enacting. As it
> happened, Bush displayed a much longer beard than Osama as the latter was
> played by a young boy with a dismal growth at his chin.
>