by Dr Irfan Zafar
The worldwide Jewish population is around 13.3 million as compared to that of Muslims which stands at 1.57 Billion. Roughly for every one Jew, there are 118 Muslims. The Muslims blame the Jews in particular and the west in general for their misfortunes and miseries. But the facts speak otherwise. At least 181 Jews and people of half- or three-quarters-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2010, and constituting 36% of all US recipients during the same period. In the research fields of Chemistry, Economics, Physics, and Physiology/Medicine, the corresponding world and US percentages are 26% and 39%, respectively. Among women laureates in the four research fields, the Jewish percentages are 38% and 50%, respectively. Of organizations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 25% were founded principally by Jews or by people of half-Jewish descent. (Jews currently make up approximately 0.2% of the world’s population).
Albert Einstein theoretical physicist, discovered the theory of general relativity effecting a revolution in Physics, was a Jew. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Austrian Neurologist Sigmund Freud, German Philosopher Karl Heinrich Marx, Nobel Prize winner Economist Paul Anthony Samuelson and the recipient of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Milton Friedman were all Jews.
The Business world too is dominated by leading Jewish entrepreneurs including 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).The media in particular is controlled by the Jewish lobby including Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters(ABC News), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham (publisher of The WashingtonPost), Joseph Lelyyeld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New YorkTimes).In short, may it be politics, philanthropy, education, businesses, scientists, sports, film actors & directors; they are all dominated by well-educated individuals with extraordinary talents who are doing all they can to help the humanity and making this world a better place to live.
Looking at ourselves, according to demographics, Islam has 1.57 billion adherents, making up 23% of the world population. Around 62% of the world’s Muslims live in Asia, with over 683 million adherents in countries including Indonesia (home to 15.6% of the world’s Muslims), Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. About 20% of Muslims live in the Arab Countries. In the Middle East, the non-Arab countries of Turkey and Iran are the largest Muslim-majority countries; in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have the most populous Muslim communities.The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an International Organization with 57 member states. The Organization “attempts” to be the collective voice of the Muslim World. There are around 500 Universities spread in these 57 member Muslim States compared to that of United States which has over 7,000 higher education Institutions with 103 US universities in the top 200 rankings.There are eight Universities and many Colleges in Israel, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, for a population of only 7,353,985 people covering an area of 20,770 sq. km. Israel has a literacy rate of 98.5% for men and 95.9% for women as compared to the Muslim-majority states having an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent. Furthermore, the Muslim world spends on average 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while Israel spends 6.4% of its GDP on education & Research.
The Muslim world certainly has done all the wrong things “perfectly” to give least priority to the development of sound educational infrastructures. The point which somehow seems to have been forgotten is that the threat to our survival and the real enemy among us is the educational ignorance & backwardness creeping into our society and destroying it systematically. Why are we blaming others for our own ignorance? We lack the capacity to produce, diffuse and apply knowledge. The only achievements we tend to highlight are the ones of the past glories. While the world looks at the future, we are stuck in the past. When the west was making seats of learning, we were wasting our fortunes making useless architectures. There has to be an end to our investment in ignorance for in the end all that matters will be education.
—The writer is a social activist.
(Source: http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=79656)
Albert Einstein theoretical physicist, discovered the theory of general relativity effecting a revolution in Physics, was a Jew. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Austrian Neurologist Sigmund Freud, German Philosopher Karl Heinrich Marx, Nobel Prize winner Economist Paul Anthony Samuelson and the recipient of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Milton Friedman were all Jews.
The Business world too is dominated by leading Jewish entrepreneurs including 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).The media in particular is controlled by the Jewish lobby including Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters(ABC News), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham (publisher of The WashingtonPost), Joseph Lelyyeld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New YorkTimes).In short, may it be politics, philanthropy, education, businesses, scientists, sports, film actors & directors; they are all dominated by well-educated individuals with extraordinary talents who are doing all they can to help the humanity and making this world a better place to live.
Looking at ourselves, according to demographics, Islam has 1.57 billion adherents, making up 23% of the world population. Around 62% of the world’s Muslims live in Asia, with over 683 million adherents in countries including Indonesia (home to 15.6% of the world’s Muslims), Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. About 20% of Muslims live in the Arab Countries. In the Middle East, the non-Arab countries of Turkey and Iran are the largest Muslim-majority countries; in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have the most populous Muslim communities.The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an International Organization with 57 member states. The Organization “attempts” to be the collective voice of the Muslim World. There are around 500 Universities spread in these 57 member Muslim States compared to that of United States which has over 7,000 higher education Institutions with 103 US universities in the top 200 rankings.There are eight Universities and many Colleges in Israel, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, for a population of only 7,353,985 people covering an area of 20,770 sq. km. Israel has a literacy rate of 98.5% for men and 95.9% for women as compared to the Muslim-majority states having an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent. Furthermore, the Muslim world spends on average 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while Israel spends 6.4% of its GDP on education & Research.
The Muslim world certainly has done all the wrong things “perfectly” to give least priority to the development of sound educational infrastructures. The point which somehow seems to have been forgotten is that the threat to our survival and the real enemy among us is the educational ignorance & backwardness creeping into our society and destroying it systematically. Why are we blaming others for our own ignorance? We lack the capacity to produce, diffuse and apply knowledge. The only achievements we tend to highlight are the ones of the past glories. While the world looks at the future, we are stuck in the past. When the west was making seats of learning, we were wasting our fortunes making useless architectures. There has to be an end to our investment in ignorance for in the end all that matters will be education.
—The writer is a social activist.
(Source: http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=79656)
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