What, if anything, do you hope to achieve with a post like this?
Legolas Send a noteboard - 17/09/2014 07:33:39 PM
View original postIn Mosul, schools have been presented with a new set of rules, advertised in a two-page bulletin posted on mosques, in markets and on electricity poles. The statement, dated Sept. 5, cheered "good news of the establishment of the Islamic State Education Diwan by the caliph who seeks to eliminate ignorance, to spread religious sciences and to fight the decayed curriculum."
View original postThe new Mosul curriculum, allegedly issued by al-Baghdadi himself, stresses that any reference to the republics of Iraq or Syria must be replaced with "Islamic State." Pictures that violate its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam will be ripped out of books. Anthems and lyrics that encourage love of country are now viewed as a show of "polytheism and blasphemy," and are strictly banned.
That last bit is possibly the first good idea I've heard from Islamic State - Arabic nationalist propaganda tends to be truly awful as well as maddeningly pervasive. And it's not like it's doing any good anymore in Iraq or Syria at this point.
View original postThe new curriculum even went so far as to explicitly ban Charles Darwin's theory of evolution — although it was not previously taught in Iraqi schools.
Nice move.
View original postof course, there are some -- even on this site -- who will loudly proclaim that evolution is "just a theory" and that science is biased because it's not what g-d tells us. i don't know how it could be made more clear that religious extremism is harmful to a functioning society, and that "American Taliban" has never been a more apt description of the people holding US education hostage. the religious extremists in the US will never see they are indistinguishable from the Islamic extremists they rail against, even when their tactics and methods are shown to be equivalent to each other. i'm not sure this is something that will be fixed short of an all-out civil war in America, because being willfully ignorant is very difficult to combat when the truth will never be accepted as reality.
That's just absurd as well as deeply offensive - "their tactics and methods are shown to be equivalent to each other"? Really?
Sure, it was clever to make a post with that headline that makes one hesitate, before clicking on it, whether it will be about American conservatives or about some other religious group, but I doubt you will find anyone at all, even among your own side, who would subscribe to these comments here, nor do they exactly inspire potentially valuable discussions. I like a good controversial post as much as the next guy and probably more than most, but this doesn't strike me as a great example.
religious extremists ban teaching evolution, insert propaganda into curriculum
- 17/09/2014 06:54:52 PM
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What, if anything, do you hope to achieve with a post like this?
- 17/09/2014 07:33:39 PM
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Re: What, if anything, do you hope to achieve with a post like this?
- 17/09/2014 11:53:41 PM
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Re: religious extremists ban teaching evolution, insert propaganda into curriculum
- 17/09/2014 08:27:40 PM
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The internet has taught me that moondog rarely brings substance *NM*
- 18/09/2014 08:59:56 PM
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According to Dewey, the father of modern education, propaganda is whole point of education
- 18/09/2014 09:30:15 PM
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The fgar left loonies who are trying to use Common Core to push thier anit-Amrican agenda
- 19/09/2014 03:36:44 PM
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You make a post like this and can't even type out god without using a dash? Hahaha. *NM*
- 22/09/2014 05:23:22 PM
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