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.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Thursday September 18 2014, @04:42PM
Worth noting is that during the European Dark Ages, they weren't in the Dark Ages themselves, which indeed is why we still have a LOT of knowledge that certainly wasn't being preserved in Europe during those centuries.
At least if they're now going to do their own Dark Ages, they had the decency to wait until the West was capable of retaining our own archival stores of knowledge.