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The Islamic State Bans Teaching Math to Students

posted by n1 on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the 1+1=blasphemy dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @12:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @12:04PM (#94929)

    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.