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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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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:02AM
It is ISIL, not ISIS.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/767/932/805/ [thepetitionsite.com]
Also I agree with other posters who say this does not ring true. The position described does not resemble Islam in any way. I hate to say it but the viewpoint described is more like how the rest of the world views your average American. I think it could only have been made up by an American.
I guess since they are talking about fictional organisation called ISIS, which does not exist outside of the imagination of the American media, the media can say anything they want.
I forget which is it we have always been at war with? Eastasia or Eurasia?
(Score: 1) by Username on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:23AM
I find it hard to believe the current problems in the middle east aren't Islamic or related to issues in Iraq or Syria.
Do you work for the Obama administration?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:59AM
> Do you work for the Obama administration?
So far from it that neither your statement, your question nor its relevance to my post make any sense to me. I am sure if I were trapped in the same reality tunnel as you are, it would parse easily.
The American reality tunnel is so narrow and so weirdly constrained to such a small field of mostly made up facts that it has rendered the propaganda, what many would call entertainment (sit-coms, movies, music, stand-up comics, news), un-pallatable to everybody who lives in the real world where often there more than two options or possibilities as scary as that may be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @12:04PM
Point in fact, the refusal to acknowledge the reality that there is currently no Islamic group active in Iraq named ISIS. Catchy name, goes back millennia, I can see why the media like to throw it around but whenever they are talking about ISIS and it is in reference to some purported occurrence in Iraq, who knows what they are referring to.
(Score: 1) by Stuntbutt on Thursday September 18 2014, @04:36PM
There have been various reporting statements about this. Even NPR addresses this issue. The original name of the group was ISIL. This is somewhat an artifact of translation. ISIS is a snappier name, and the western media caught on to it. The Islamic State name is a "re-branding" effort and simplification. President Obama has explicitly stated he, and the DOD, will continue to use ISIL in order to discredit rebranding efforts.
No one gives a shit. If you say ISIL, ISIS, or Islamic State, everyone know who you're talking about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @05:43PM
Actually, if we really want to discredit ISIS (or ISIL, or whatever), we should call them Daesh [washingtonpost.com]. Apparently, they really hate that.
(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday September 19 2014, @01:55AM
ISLOL