Various factors combined to make this so: the fact that a practising Jew (like a practising Muslim) is forbidden to create graven images of the deity; the fact that Jews had suffered the calumny of being seen as the murderers of Christ.
Research on human ESc and the derivation of new cell lines from supernumerary human embryos are strictly regulated Switzerland and, it is forbidden to create embryos for the sole purpose of research.
Manicheans were discouraged from having sex, so as not to create more flesh, and were forbidden to drink wine or to plant or pluck vegetation.
We were forbidden to pray aloud.
"Common people were forbidden to wear silk".
They were forbidden to leave the country.
We were forbidden to scream.
We were forbidden to speak.
Wagon wheels were muffled, and men were forbidden to talk.
Writers were not only forbidden to create works that were dissident, formally complex, or objective (a term of reproach), but they were also expected to fulfill the dictates of the Communist Party to produce propaganda on specific, often rather narrow, themes of current interest to it.
