Okay, students, here’s a pop quiz: which prominent political alliance is violently opposed to the teaching of evolution and promotes religious theories in the science curriculum?
- ISIS
- The Texas Republican Party
Trick question: they both do.
ISIS:
In Mosul, ISIS issued a statement nearly two weeks ago, declaring “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.”
The AP report added that Islamic State explicitly prohibits lessons on “Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.”
As it turns out, Iraqi schools weren’t teaching evolution anyway, but in the name of “eliminating ignorance,” ISIS wants to be absolutely certain that modern biology is banned from science classes. The violent extremists prefer “religious sciences.”
The document also rails against teaching evolution in schools, demands that schools restrict access to “community organizers” […], and encouraging schools to embrace “subjects with emphasis on the Judeo-Christian principles upon which America was founded and which form the basis of America’s legal, political and economic systems.”
So the real question is do we fight them over there or over here?
And the ones “over here” would vehemently deny any resemblance between them and the ones “over there”. We need to educate the ones here and, unfortunately, fight the others.