In today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “peer”, Mo asserts that many Muslims have memorized the Qur’an word for word. The belief that the book is literally true is ubiquitous among Muslims; one poll by Pew showed this:
Only Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa were asked whether they view the Quran as the word of God or a book written by men; across most of the African nations polled, nine-in-ten or more Muslims say that the Quran is the word of God, including more than seven-in-ten who believe it should be taken literally, word for word.
But how many Muslims have memorized the entire word of God? Mo implies many, but Jesus calls to his attention that there’s confirmation bias.
The strip came with a short note saying, “It’s called Hifaz,” which is the name for the practice of memorizing the whole Qur’an And indeed, there are sites that will, for a fee, help you memorize the entire book.
This is why so many Muslims are creationists. Another strange aspect of the alliance between Islam and the far-left.
The far-left? In what way? Or did you mean far right? I must be missing something.
Perhaps what Jeff meant was the “alliance between Islam and the far-left” (as seen in support for Palestine, etc.) is made that much stranger due to the creationism found in the Qur’an?
Ah – interesting.
A related concept is scrupulosity.
It tracks very close to plain-old studying. Studying is good – so… I guess scrupulosity is more like voluntary thought reform:
https://grokipedia.com/page/Scrupulosity
… which came first, Hifaz, scrupulosity or the studying, I’m not sure..🤔