Quote - Actually, traditional Islam does forbid all images, not just of humans. Which is why decorative Islamic art is entirely made up of abstract patterns. But I don't think there is any modern Islamic country that forbids images in general as part of the legal code.

 

The Taliban defaced/destroyed/prohibited from exhibition works of art because they had images of animals on it. Informally, they would allow depictions of animals in a landscape, but if there were too many in the painting they would decide it was actually a depiction of the animals. I saw on TV how the curator of the Kabul Museum of Art had painted over (on the paintings glass) five of seven ducks in a stream in a 19th century landscape painting until it was deemed acceptable.