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

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: 3, Insightful) by MrGuy on Thursday September 18 2014, @02:49PM

    by MrGuy (1007) on Thursday September 18 2014, @02:49PM (#95000)

    TFA claims teaching ANY math is banned. Any at all.

    It also claims that any teaching of the rules of physics are required to state that they are "due to Allah's rules and laws."

    How the heck are you teaching physics without math? Once you get beyond "see, gravity!" there's not much to teach without using SOME amount of math.

    Personally, I welcome a terrorist society that's decided it can make due without the ability to do any kind of logisticial or resource planing. Good luck getting your limited foodstuffs where they need to go without running any numbers!

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  • (Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday September 18 2014, @06:14PM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Thursday September 18 2014, @06:14PM (#95107)

    methinks if you can see gravity you can do a whole lot without math ;)