Teaching Evolution in the Middle East: In Saudi Arabia students learn how to be morons. In Iran teaching evolution is much better than what we have here in Idiot America.

I found this at Teaching Evolution in the Middle East

The most egregious example is perhaps Saudi Arabia, which in effect has a complete ban against the teaching of evolution. Evolution is not mentioned in K-12 education, except in the more advanced biology course in 12th grade, where in textbooks it is introduced as a fallacious and blasphemous theory, using the following introduction to the topic: “Nevertheless in the West appeared what is called ‘the theory of evolution’’ which was derived by the Englishman Charles Darwin, who denied Allah’s creation of humanity, saying that all living things and humans are from a single origin. We do not need to pursue such a theory because we have in the Book of Allah the final say regarding the origin of life, that all living things are Allah’s creation.” One might wonder how it is possible to provide more advanced biology education while altogether avoiding the topic of evolution. However, even concepts such as adaptation can find alternative definitions that agree with creationism. For example, the standard Saudi Arabian secondary 10th-grade obligatory text on biology explains adaptation as follows: “There exist structural, functional and behavioral characteristics in organisms that help them to survive in their environment. Allah, glory to him, created for organisms those characteristics and structures that enable them to live in their different environments.”

While Saudi Arabia represents an extreme in terms of evolution teaching, another extreme in the opposite is provided, perhaps surprisingly, by Iran. In Iran, evolution is an important part of the K-12 biology curriculum. The standard Iranian textbook in biology at the high-school level has been analyzed by Elise Burton who writes: “The evolution chapter, divided into three sections, provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of evolutionary theory, with the first section devoted primarily to Darwin and his influences and culminating in the formulation of the new synthesis; the second section to evidence of evolution, including paleontology, molecular and structural homology, and embryology, with discussion of evolutionary rates and punctuated equilibrium; and the third section to examples of natural selection, such as peppered moths and the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant on Darwin’s finches.” The high-school curriculum in evolution in Iran appears to be at par with education in most countries in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia.