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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @01:00AM
And you will be not so pleased to know that much of their support will be in the form of allowing US military personnel to be stationed at bases on their land, provide fly-over rights, logistical support, a (somewhat tepid) moral support in the form of tut-tutting their extremist co-religionists, and not much more. Actually joining in the fight? Not so much. :-(