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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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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @01:11AM
Well, technically, you are correct. On the other hand, The Khmer rouge, and the NK regime come pretty darn close in spirit, if not in actual fact. But that seems to me to be a distinction with barely a hair's width of a difference.
(Score: 2) by keplr on Friday September 19 2014, @06:03AM
I can play that game in the other direction, and say that North Korea is actually running a state religion--making blasphemy as a crime nothing unusual. Christopher Hitchens said that DPRK was the most religious society he had ever visited, and he was no stranger to the middle East.
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