Just implement Common Core and they’ll be just as screwed.
This will do far more damage than we could ever do.
Muslims will be illiterate and technologically deficient.
But they’ll have plenty of time to worship Allah!
Works for me.
At that rate they’ll become dumber than our kids.
These bizarre jihadist are basically reactionaries who are unable to handle the values, institutions, scientific and social advances that constitute modernity. They are fighting a futile battle to reestablish the values, customs and even dress of the 11th century. When Obama spoke of bewildered people clinging to their guns and religion, he didn’t realize it or intend it but he was describing these Islamists.
Reading and math are pretty important to any culture. Forbidding math is rather short-sighted.
Speaking of short-sighted, there are reports that the large majority of IS dudes are carrying STD’s due to their practice of imitating Freddy Mercury round the campfire.
Gee, I thought they invented mathematics.
Ohh... that’s right, they stole that.
It’s ironic that the main keeper of mathematical knowledge in the middle ages would ban its teaching a thousand years later. (We use Arabic numerals, for example.) Why is it that some elements of Islamic history should be verboten while others are mandatory?
You mean after going to all that trouble inventing algebra and the zero, they’re not allowed to use them?
Sounds like a perfect mission for a “smart” bomb...
It will be interesting if banning mathematics makes some kids want to study it more.
People that can’t do math can’t; build a house or building of any kind, fix a car or a motorcycle, can’t build or repair a firearm, and definitely can’t design or build a nuclear war head.
So I think this is a great idea for ISIS.
Wah?
Thought they supposedly invented algebra?
They don’t want to celebrate their so called heritage?
Fine. Dumb people make life easier for me.
“Thousands of children in swaths of war-torn Syria, now controlled by dreaded Islamic State militants, can no longer study math or social studies under new diktats issued by the jihadists.”
I figured that the they would eventually find common ground with the liberals here.
The sad thing is that ANYBODY, including parents on THIS SITE, who think their kids will learn math in our schools might as well put their kids under the care of ISIS, as the kids will learn math here about as well. The ONLY KIDS learning math, now, are the kids who are being taught OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL, and that is still far too few.
Eh, I can see dropping the social studies, but the little heads full of mush really need to learn some 2 + 2 or those people are going to be walking into walls in a few years.
On second thought - keep it up, Jihadi edumacators!
Blacks and women in the US view mathematics as the province of “old White men”—In fact, there was a posting on FR to that effect a couple of days ago.
Coincidence?
"One toe & 1 finger, that all I have left." BOOM!
Math is hard!
/barbie
The blessedness of Allah spares the children from math in order to make their lives a living paradise.