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Newsweek reports that ISIS has announced a new curriculum banning the study of math for students in areas of Iraq and Syria it controls. Also banned will be the teaching of music, social studies (especially anything about elections or democracy), and sports. Books cannot include any reference to evolution and teachers must say that the laws of physics and chemistry "are due to Allah's rules and laws." Students will instead learn all about "belonging to Islam," and how to "denounce infidelity and infidels." Teachers who break the rules "will be punished," according to fliers posted in ISIS-controlled territory.
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:47AM
...without maths their ballistics expertise will be pretty shit
unfortunately they might still be able to buy rockets designed for americans, with voice destination targeting and a big red button
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Alfred on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:46PM
I thought that too. But for some reason terrorists are good at recruiting engineers.
There must be some sort of class system. The guys in charge stay in charge as some sort of ruling elite. The commoner underling is sent to die. They probably keep their engineers for things the commoners cant do.
No one ever teaches how to be a suicide bomber from experience. This sounds like a move to get uneducated masses primed for jihad as expendable meat bags.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday September 18 2014, @02:42PM
My understanding of it, according to reporters and researchers who have studied the phenomenon of suicide bombers, is that the primary purpose of a suicide bombing from the point of view of the terrorist group committing the act is to get rid of really stupid would-be terrorists who might jeopardize their more important plans. It also works really really well if you think that enthusiastic new recruit is actually a Western spy - send him on a suicide bombing, and problem solved, because the spy can neither refuse to go on the mission (without blowing his cover) nor return to the group if he decides to escape rather than blow himself up.
In the US Army, the guys in charge mostly sit in comfortable offices thousands of miles away while privates, corporals, and sergeants get killed. How is this any different?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by metamonkey on Thursday September 18 2014, @03:51PM
Allah will guide our holy rockets to righteously blow up the infidels.
Okay 3, 2, 1, let's jam.