Shocking: sad statistics - Muslims vs Rest of the world

Hi guys..

Here is an article that is being circulated over email forwards among the muslim members. Which is really good. Do not take it in a bad way. Infact the article is also published on sum Islamic Website which promotes this article as an eye opener for all the muslim brothers of the world.
Well the article is just facts put on a paper.. but my appeal to the mods : if they find the article controversial pls lock this thread.

There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together. Ever wondered why?

Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish. Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all
time and TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Century’, was a Jew. Sigmund Freud – id,
ego, superego – the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew. So were Paul Samuelson
and Milton Friedman.
Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has enriched the whole humanity: Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine. Alert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine. Gertrude Elion gave us a leukaemia fighting drug. Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B. Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis (a sexually transmitted disease). Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases. Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission. Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology (disorders of the endocrine system; diabetes, hyperthyroidism). Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mental disorders, depression and phobias). Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill. George Wald won a Nobel for furthering our understanding of the human eye. Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology (study of embryos and their development). Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4 billion Muslims (other than Peace Prizes).

Why are Jews so powerful?
Stanley Mezor invented the first icro-processing chip. Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor. Peter Schultz,optical fibre cable; Charles Adler, traffic lights; Benno Strauss,Stainless steel; Isador Kisee, sound movies; Emile Berliner, telephone microphone and Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include Ralph Lauren (Polo), Levis Strauss (Levi’s Jeans), Howard Schultz (Starbuck’s), Sergey Brin (Google), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Donna Karan (DKNY), Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins) and Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Donuts).

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew. So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state), Alan Greenspan (fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman, Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defence), Maxim Litvinov (USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal (Singapore’s first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia),Benjamin Disraeli (British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater, Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal), John Deutsch (CIA director), Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM), Pierre Mendes (French PM), Michael Howard (British home secretary), Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria) and Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury).
In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters (ABC Jews),

Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine
Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyyeld (Executive editor, The
New York Times), and Max Frankel (New York Times). Can you name the most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world? The name is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around the world. Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by wining seven gold medals.
Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time Olympic gold medalist. Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker are all Jewish. Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all Jewish?
As a matter of fact, Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew.

Among directors and producers, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210), Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky and Hutch), Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Douglas Fairbanks (The thief of Baghdad) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.

To be certain, Washington is the capital that matters and in Washington the lobby
that matters is The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. Washington
knows that if PM Ehud Olmert were to discover that the earth is flat, AIPAC will take the 109th Congress pass a resolution congratulating Olmert on his discovery.
William James Sidis, with an IQ of 250-300, is the brightest human who ever existed.
Guess what faith did he belong to?

Question: So, why are Jews so powerful? **Answer: Education. **

Why are Muslims so powerless?
There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet: one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in Europe and six million in the Americas.

Every fifth human being is a Muslim; for every single Hindu there are two Muslims, for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jew there are one hundred Muslims. Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?
Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around 500 universities; one
university for every three million Muslims. The United States has 5,758 universities
and India has 8,407. In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’, and intriguingly, not one university from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent. A
Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per cent. Some 98 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world had completed primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same. Around 40 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world attended university while no more than two per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same. Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims. The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million. In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is 35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs (in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million). Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while the Christian world spends around five per cent of its GDP.

**Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge. **

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per million are two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society. In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis while the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK, the number of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same in Egypt is 20.

**Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge. **

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports are an important indicator of knowledge application. Pakistan’s exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at one per cent. The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent while Singapore is at 58 per cent.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.

Why are Muslims powerless? Because we aren’t producing knowledge.
Why are Muslims powerless? Because we aren’t diffusing knowledge.
Why are Muslims powerless? Because we aren’t applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.
Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.
**America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion; China $8 trillion, Japan $3.8 trillion, India $3.6 trillion, and Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis). **
Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion; Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion, Catholic Poland $489 billion and Buddhist Thailand $545
billion (Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast
declining).

**So, why are Muslims so powerless?
Answer: Lack of education.

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Re: Shocking: sad statistics - Muslims vs Rest of the world

true if its anything we lack in then it is only education we have to blame
and teaching good manners, behaviour from parents
not to say its the parents fault children have the blame also
but emphasis is given to education because the first revelation to the prophet peace be upon him or shall i say the first word was "**READ" اقرا **so the Quran says it all

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Ability to check divine interference in our day to day life is the key to success. Worship God but don't allow HIM to interefere in our lives. God helps those who help themselves. Sitting idle and expecting HIM to help is not going to work. Why blame Jews..they are hard working people and that's the reason for their success.

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Its shocking.. According to a report I once read, more research work comes out of Japan, then all of the Islamic world combined... I dont understand why Muslims dont want to advance... In England, education is free, and yet Muslims trail behind other minorities..

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BF a very informative article....The lack of education amongst the muslim population is saddenning but all the very true.....More and more of the Muslim Educated class only achieve education for the reason of earning a living...basically the hand to mouth syndrome....nothing more...
Education is emphasized just for that sake and not a whole lot for the / research / advancement./risk taking businesses are all considered as out of the ordinary things for a muslim to do...
I remember these words from one of Jefery Lang's lectures(he is a Muslim convertee speaker/writer) that as muslims the younger generation is really emphasized to study hard...learn all the scientific ways yet when the same thinking of theirs is applied to the Islamic teachings...They r completely shut off by the parents or the elders "don'tsay that"...Its just that the younger generation that r the future generation of this world r not really directed properly....Our religion teaches us that Educating ourselves is really the key to success not only in worldy matters but also spiritually!

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if you see in religion forum stupid questions are raised like can we eat hindu food?
and ironically some of the people suggested that they should refrain eating food prepared by hindu.
and there is this guy whose hindu colleague invited him for his marriage and he said that he is muslim and he cannot attend any kafir's wedding.
how come with such mentality muslims can live peacefully within multicultural society.

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True

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Spot on.

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**Question: So, why are Jews so powerful?

****Wrong Answer: Education.

***Correct Answer: Money. They happen to be in charge of creating it for the world.
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Why are Muslims so powerless?
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Wrong Answer: Lack of education

Correct Answer.. Disunity. A united bunch of ignoramuses can subdue a disunited intelligentsia.
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As well as inability to check God's interference.

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Money and power don't grow on trees. Education is necessary.

What does disunity have to do with the lack of universities, primary education, literacy, inventions, patents, technology, scientists, world leaders, philanthropists, influential opinion shapers and Nobel prize winners?

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Disunity is result of lack of leadership (honest and sincere), currently all leaders in "Islamic" countries are viewed as lap-dogs. I agree with you, though now Islamic countries have universities but they are a bit late in the business, or may be a bit too late everything else is just the result of this.

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The Prophet MUHAMMAD peace be upon him said
" It is not poverty that i fear for you what i do fear that the world will be spread for you just as it was spread before you, eventialy you would desire it (duniya) the way they desire it, then eventialy it will destroy you just as it destroyed them"
Authentic Hadith

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I understand how that relates to statemen, presidents, etc. But what about a strong, positive role model/voice that isn't necessarily a government official? A Martin Luther King/Ghandi/Mandela type character.

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Poverty and illiteracy are not the same thing.

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Such transformational leaders are a rarity. Who knows it may happen in all the societies going thru turmoil.

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Well, we have 1.4 billion candidates for the job. I feel sure there is a prospect out there.

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the conclusions given in post#1 are cwap

islamic countries are warm weathered relaxed culture places. our great grandfathers sat on the katt in the burah, as the cold climate peoples where into countless centuries of building things

if we lived in europe with its cold climate WE WOULD HAVE BUILT THINGS.

white europeans are what have shaped the world economies primarily through absolute need.

muslims as a group even now are not the most needy people of the world in any sense money or education. africa and other parts of asia are bigger victims.

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first comes the money.. then comes education..
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*What mineral wealth Israel has? Nil. Knowledge is their wealth. Knowledge creates power, influence and everything automatically falls in place.

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Israel isn't built on 'education'.. it's built on exploitation.. land grabbed from the Arabs, knowledge and money and protection cheated out from the hands of hard working people in the USA..

nope.. Muslim's in history were quite educated.. they just didn't stay in control of printing their own money and let the goldsmiths take over.

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What does disunity have to do with the lack of universities, primary education, literacy, inventions, patents, technology, scientists, world leaders, philanthropists, influential opinion shapers and Nobel prize winners?
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collaboration... there's enough knowledge and resources available in the Muslim world should they start pooling it and helping each other out.

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So you are going with the "warm climates makes you lazy" theory? What about the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Mayans, etc, etc.

Besides, we are talking about education, not budiling of things. Even though some of the great architectual wonders of the world were in the ME and Asia.

We are talking about advancements and education - where the Islamic culture once dominated. Does warm weather dull your brains as well, prohibiting you from seeking knowledge?

It starts a slippery slope of what other attributes one can attribute to warm climate inhabitants if you use that as reasoning.