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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: ISIS attempts PR move to drum up GOP Support!!!!
ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools
BAGHDAD (AP) The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been "permanently annulled."
The Islamic State group has declared patriotic songs blasphemous and ordered that certain pictures be torn out of textbooks.
But instead of compliance, Iraq's second largest city has at least so far responded to the Sunni militants' demands with silence. Although the extremists stipulated that the school year would begin Sept. 9, pupils have uniformly not shown up for class, according to residents who spoke anonymously because of safety concerns. They said families were keeping their children home out of mixed feelings of fear, resistance and uncertainty.
"What's important to us now is that the children continue receiving knowledge correctly, even if they lose a whole academic year and an official certification," a Mosul resident who identified himself as Abu Hassan told The Associated Press, giving only his nickname for fear of reprisals. He and his wife have opted for home schooling, picking up the required readings at the local market.
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BAGHDAD (AP) The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been "permanently annulled."
The Islamic State group has declared patriotic songs blasphemous and ordered that certain pictures be torn out of textbooks.
But instead of compliance, Iraq's second largest city has at least so far responded to the Sunni militants' demands with silence. Although the extremists stipulated that the school year would begin Sept. 9, pupils have uniformly not shown up for class, according to residents who spoke anonymously because of safety concerns. They said families were keeping their children home out of mixed feelings of fear, resistance and uncertainty.
"What's important to us now is that the children continue receiving knowledge correctly, even if they lose a whole academic year and an official certification," a Mosul resident who identified himself as Abu Hassan told The Associated Press, giving only his nickname for fear of reprisals. He and his wife have opted for home schooling, picking up the required readings at the local market.
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BREAKING: ISIS attempts PR move to drum up GOP Support!!!! (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Sep 2014
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Thank for the information, the lack of information about how true Muslims detest the vagabond
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
#1
If you say that out loud the mass media will not be happy with their propaganda failure. And far too
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
#3
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Thank for the information, the lack of information about how true Muslims detest the vagabond
sociopaths that sully the religion is a media conspiracy.
ISIS is not Islamic.
It is like Christians that spit on the poor and want lower taxes for the rich and want to form militias to protect the border from an invasion of children, not actual Christians no matter how many times they scream they are.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)2. ISIS is to Islam what the KKK or the Phineas Priesthood are to Christianity.
Of course, the media won't allow that sort of comparison out for mass consumption.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. If you say that out loud the mass media will not be happy with their propaganda failure. And far too
many right here on DU.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)4. can you imagine
what those peoples would do in Egypt with that art, architecture?