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Why are Jews so powerful and Muslims so powerless?

by Dr. Farrukh Saleem
January 8, 2010

(Dr. Farrukh Saleem is a Pakistani journalist and political
analyst who is currently also the executive director of the
Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank
focusing on Pakistan's political and economic security, as
well as regional and environmental issues. Originally a
financial professional by occupation, he managed an eight
figure equities portfolio invested in the New York Stock
Exchange between the years 1988 and 1994.

Saleem has been a columist for The News International,
Pakistan's largest English-language daily, for over 5 years.
Prior to that, he wrote weekly columns for the Dawn
newspaper in 1996. Throughout 1996, he also worked as a
correspondent on issues related to Pakistan, India and Iran
for the Vancouver Sun, a Canadian newspaper. Farrukh Saleem
has additionally been a guest columnist for the Hong
Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review. He has served in
capacity as the CEO of Dominion Stock Funds Limited, a
KSE-listed company, and currently lives in Islamabad.)

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 - ego,
superego - the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew. So were
Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has
enriched the whole of 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 leukemia-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 180 Nobel
Prizes while only 3 Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4
billion Muslims (other than Peace Prizes).

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

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to the
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 (Federal Chairman of Banking under Reagan, Bush,
Clinton and Bush, Jr.), Joseph Lieberman, Senator, Madeleine
Albright (former Secretary of State), 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 Prime Minister), Jorge Sampaio (President
of Portugal), Herb Gray (Canadian Deputy Prime Minister),
Pierre Mendes (French Prime Minister), Michael Howard
(British Home Secretary), Bruno Kreisky (Chancellor of
Austria) and Robert Rubin (former Secretary of the
Treasury).

In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN),
Barbara Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post),
Henry Grunwald (Editor-in-Chief of Time Magazine), 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 (Tennis)
are all Jewish.

Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis,
Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Barbra Streisand, Billy
Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers, Dustin
Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas,
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's 1, 2 and 3),
Michael Mann (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 make 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?

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
Organization 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 (1 for every 57,000 Americans) 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 U.S. 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, 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 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
worlds GDP, is fast declining.

So, why are Muslims so powerless?

Answer: Lack of education!

All we do is shouting to Allah the whole day and blame
everyone else for our multiple failures.

Opinion expressed in this article is solely of the author.