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Old 08-20-2014, 01:30 PM   #489
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame View Post
http://www.riyadhvision.com/2014/08/...-schools-isis/

Islamic State has banned Chemistry and Philosophy in controlled-area schools because "they do not fit with the laws of God".
These are simply uneducated, ignorant savages running amuck like a medieval horde of barbarians. They don't even know that those historic caliphates that they adore were some of the greatest sources of science, physics, mathematics, and chemistry in history. English words like Alchemy and Alcohol, etc. come from Arabic. Without Islamic science and scholars, we would also have also have lost of lot of ancient Greek treatises on math, philosophy, etc. that helped spark the Enlightenment.

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