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  • I don’t know about Buddhism, but at least within Islam, learning and knowing (early medieval quranic) Arabic is a prerequisite to becoming a Muslim scholar and moving up the faith leader hierarchy. It is a belief that only the original text has the actual holy significance, and translations can approximate it but fundamentally are a shadow of a shadow and should not be taken at face value.

    In fact, it was a point of pride in my religious schooling that the original Quran is verses are preserved and technically accessible for anyone to read (albeit, in a different Arabic script that got changed shortly after to be more readable when the Quran had to be standardized). This point of pride was held over both Christians and Jewish people (and other minority Abrahamic faiths, like followers of Prophet David), who were seen to be “people of the book” and so ultimately believers of the same god, but they lost their way because their scripture was lost and translated into nothingness.

    Now, do I believe any of this anymore? No not at all lmao. But I say all this to point out that some faiths do place a lot of emphasis on their liturgical languages.



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    Peculiarities of this image:

    1. Random Asian on tiktok. That’s not a group of people???
    2. What is the distinction between queers for palestine vs anti zionist lmao. Feels like they just wanted a blue hair and pronouns in there to hate on
    3. Font changes for q4p and random asian
    4. Irish guy is the only one with a trifolded sign. Was he invited last minute??? Also it’s halfway to falling off the table
    5. Radical Islamist actually has a comically long index finger that’s folded up
    6. They’re all at least mildly angry. I would say because this table is highly politically incoherent. However the “artist” wants to present this as one large movement, so I think they didn’t think beyond “angry = bad, ok grok send post”