Impossibly Blue Skies

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Ameen.

posted by

Celeritas • 19 January, 2009 19:44

Salaam Alaikum,

Me too.
I think after the initial shock, gradually people become desensitised to such imagery. Also, that these were living souls, now just reduced to nameless corpses dehumanises them.

I received an email with even more graphic imagery and to be honest, I found the "Oh look at how horribly injured they are" tone to be very disrespectful to the dead.

People's bodies are very private in Islam and this same sense of modesty is usually extended to the dead, so is it right to disregard this, no matter what the circumstances?

posted by

Safiya Outlines • 20 January, 2009 19:51

I'm inclined to agree. I understand the desire to shock people into comprehension, but just en mass like this ... there must be both more respectful and more effective ways. We've all seen blurs of blood by now. We've all seen the dead and wounded tallied. What we've not seen is it make much difference.

posted by

Michelle • 22 January, 2009 02:08