I just came across this recently. Keep in mind that the writer is an Arab-Muslim. These are his words.
I will wait for the onslaught.
It's a good thing we're here!
If the Muslim extremists have their way, the world will lose out!
>
> By: Dr Farrukh Saleem.
> The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance columnist
>
> Why are Jews so powerful?
> There are only 14 million Jews in the world - seven
> million in he 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 Karl Marx, 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.
> Albert 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 emb ryos
> 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 micro-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;
> 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 (former 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 defense), 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 News), 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
> winning seven gold medals. Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time
> Olympic gold medalist. Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker
> 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
> belongs 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 over 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). Further, 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 export 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 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.
>
> All we do is shout to Allah the whole day and blame
> everyone else for our multiple failures.
I will wait for the onslaught.
It's a good thing we're here!
If the Muslim extremists have their way, the world will lose out!
>
> By: Dr Farrukh Saleem.
> The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance columnist
>
> Why are Jews so powerful?
> There are only 14 million Jews in the world - seven
> million in he 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 Karl Marx, 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.
> Albert 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 emb ryos
> 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 micro-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;
> 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 (former 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 defense), 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 News), 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
> winning seven gold medals. Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time
> Olympic gold medalist. Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker
> 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
> belongs 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 over 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). Further, 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 export 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 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.
>
> All we do is shout to Allah the whole day and blame
> everyone else for our multiple failures.
