Your question assumes worldly power, wealth and development is somehow desirable. Perhaps your paradigm is flawed. Perhaps its better to live a tribal life close to nature and closer to God.
I got this in email and trying to verify the facts although numbers seems to be correct in fact may be even worst !
Demographics: o World Jewish Population. 14 million o Distribution: 7 m in America 5 m in Asia 2 m in Europe 100 thousand in Africa o World Muslim Population: 1.5 billion o Distribution: 1 billion in Asia/Mid-East 400 M in Africa 44 M in Europe 6 M in the Americas
Movers of Current History o Albert Einstein Jewish o Sigmund Freud Jewish o Karl Marx Jewish o Paul Samuelson Jewish o Milton Friedman Jewish
Medical Milestones o Vaccinating Needle: Benjamin Ruben Jewish o Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk Jewish o Leukaemia Drug Gertrude Elion Jewish o Hepatitis B Baruch Blumberg Jewish o Syphilis Drug Paul Ehrlich Jewish o Neuro muscular Elie Metchnikoff Jewish o Endocrinology Andrew Schally Jewish o Cognitive therapy. Aaron Beck Jewish o Contraceptive Pill Gregory Pincus Jewish o Understanding of Human Eye. G. Wald Jewish o Embryology. Stanley Cohen Jewish o Kidney Dialysis Willem Kloffcame Jewish
Nobel Prize Winners o In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst 1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners
Inventions that changed History o Micro- Processing Chip. Stanley Mezor Jewish o Nuclear Chain Reactor Leo Sziland Jewish o Optical Fibre Cable Peter Schultz Jewish o Traffic Lights Charles Adler Jewish o Stainless Steel Benno Strauss Jewish o Sound Movies Isador Kisee Jewish o Telephone Microphone Emile Berliner Jewish o Video Tape Recorder Charles Ginsburg Jewish
Influential Global Business o Polo Ralph Lauren Jewish o Coca Cola Jewish o Levi's Jeans Levi Strauss Jewish o Sawbuck's Howard Schultz Jewish o Google Sergey Brin Jewish o Dell Computers Michael Dell Jewish o Oracle Larry Ellison Jewish o DKNY Donna Karan Jewish o Baskin & Robbins Irv Robbins Jewish o Dunkin Donuts Bill Rosenberg Jewish
Influential Intellectuals/ Politicians o Henry Kissinger , US Sec of State Jewish o Richard Levin, PresidentYaleUniver sity Jewish o Alan Greenspan , US Federal Reserve Jewish o Joseph Lieberman Jewish o Madeleine Albright , US Sec of State Jewish o CasperWeinberger , US Sec of Defence Jewish o Maxim Litvinov , USSR Foreign Minister Jewish o DavidMarshal , Singapore Chief Minister Jewish o Isaacs Isaacs, Gov-GenAustralia Jewish o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman Jewish o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM Jewish o Barry Goldwater , US Politician Jewish o Jorge Sampaio, President Portugal Jewish o Herb Gray, Canadian Deputy - PM Jewish o Pierre Mendes, French PM Jewish o Michael Howard, British Home Sec. Jewish o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor Jewish o Robert Rubin , US Sec of Treasury Jewish
Global Media Influential o Wolf Blitzer, CNN Jewish o Barbara Walters ABC News Jewish o EugeneMeyer , Washington Post Jewish o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine Jewish o Katherine Graham , Washington Post Jewish o Joseph Lelyeld, New York Times Jewish o Max Frankel, New York Times Jewish
Global Philanthropists o George Soros Jewish o Walter Annenberg Jewish
Why are they powerful? why are Muslims powerless? Here's another reason. We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge.
o In the entire Muslim World (57 Muslim Countries) there are only 500 universities. o In USA alone, 5,758 universities o In India alone, 8,407 universities o Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500 Ranking Universities of the World o Literacy in the Christian World 90% o Literacy in the Muslim World 40% o 15 Christian majority-countries, literacy rate 100% o Muslim majority - countries , None o 98% in Christian countries completed primary o Only 50% in Muslim countries completed primary. o 40% in Christian countries attended university o In Muslim countries a dismal 2% attended. o Muslim majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims o The USA has 5000 per million o The Christian world 1000 technicians per million. o Entire Arab World only 50 technicians per million. o Muslim World spends on research/developmen t 0.2% of GDP o Christian World spends 5 % of GDP
Conclusion. o The Muslim World lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.
Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of diffusing knowledge.
o Pakistan 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens o Singapore 460 per 1000 citizens. o In UK book titles per million is 2000 o In Egypt book titles per million is only 17
Conclusion. o Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge
Applying Knowledge is another such test. o Exports of high tech products from Pakistan is 0.9% of its exports. o In Saudi Arabia is 0.2% o Kuwait , Morocco and Algeria 0.3% o Singapore alone is 68%
Conclusion. o Muslim World is failing to apply knowledge.