OK, since they are in bed with what is supposed to be the enemy, can we assume that the basis for the anti-evolution (anti-science) movement is unpatriotic at the very least?
I'm neither kidding nor exaggerating. Honest science education is very much the friend of democracy. These are people who want to impose some type of authoritarian control, and each side (Islamic/Fundamentalist) is betting they will prevail in the end so they cooperate to tear down education.
Both science and religion have been used as battering rams to destroy one crowd or another. I would tie neither, of necessity, to any sense of patriotism. If you will remember from history or from first hand experience depending on how old you are, Jack Kennedy faced issues over electability because of his religious background. It was wondered openly whether he could divorce himself from the whims of Rome and be patriotic in the face of rhetoric that might emanate from the Vatican. It is not an irrelevant concern to have had either then or now IMO. If the public needs to be informed on the issue, they need to be informed. No one in modern times is so divorced from their high school history as to be ignorant of the Darkages.
That said, we also are accutely aware of the role Evolution in the hands of "scientists" within Communist countries has been used as a weapon against religion to destroy or pre-empt people's interest in or allegience to God. If this is what you would reference as supporting "patriotism", then, yes, science might be seen as patriotic - by dictators who make of themselves god. This is no more fair or unfair an estimate of worth than the latter estimate.
Given the above, it would seem your premise has vanished..
I see them doing here what they've been doing in Turkey for years.