(Texas or ISIS) bans math, social studies for children [View all]

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From an article that could be talking about ISIS- controlled Syria or Fundie controlled Texas, Louisiana, or Alabama.

If the violent radical Islamic fundies should ever get together with the violent radical Christian fundies here, they might find out they have a lot in common.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/world/meast/syria-crisis/index.html

(CNN) -- In swaths of Syria now controlled by ISIS, children can no longer study math or social studies. Sports are out of the question. And students will be banned from learning about elections and democracy

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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."