printBAB reader Linda has forwarded these self-explanatory facts (she credits a friend for collating the data). The information about Jewish accomplishment has been gleaned from the Jewish Virtual Library. As Charles Murray has written, “Until the end of the 18C throughout Europe, and well into the 19C in most parts of Europe, Jews lived under a regime of legally restricted rights and socially sanctioned discrimination as severe as that borne by any population not held in chattel slavery.” Remember that when you make excuses for Muslims:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
* 1988 – Najib Mahfooz.
Peace
* 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
* 1994 – Yaser Arafat
Physics
* 1990 – Elias James Corey
* 1999 – Ahmed Zewail
Medicine
* 1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
* 1998 – Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
* 1910 – Paul Heyse
* 1927 – Henri Bergson
* 1958 – Boris Pasternak
* 1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
* 1966 – Nelly Sachs
* 1976 – Saul Bellow
* 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
* 1981 – Elias Canetti
* 1987 – Joseph Brodsky
* 1991 – Nadine Gordimer
* 2001 – Imre Kertesz
* 2005 – Harold Pinter
World Peace
* 1911 – Alfred Fried
* 1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
* 1968 – Rene Cassin
* 1973 – Henry Kissinger
* 1978 – Menachem Begin
* 1986 – Elie Wiesel
* 1994 – Shimon Peres
* 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
* 1995 – Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry
* 1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
* 1906 – Henri Moissan
* 1910 – Otto Wallach
* 1915 – Richard Willstaetter
* 1918 – Fritz Haber
* 1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
* 1961 – Melvin Calvin
* 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
* 1972 – William Howard Stein
* 1977 – Ilya Prigogine
* 1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
* 1980 – Paul Berg
* 1980 – Walter Gilbert
* 1981 – Roald Hoffmann
* 1982 – Aaron Klug
* 1985 – Herbert Hauptman
* 1985 – Jerome Karle
* 1989 – Sidney Altman
* 1992 – Rudolph Marcus
* 2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, and Irwin Rose
Economics
* 1970 – Paul Samuelson
* 1971 – Simon Kuznets
* 1972 – Kenneth Arrow
* 1973 – Wassily Leontief
* 1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
* 1976 – Milton Friedman
* 1978 – Herbert A. Simon
* 1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
* 1985 – Franco Modigliani
* 1987 – Robert M.. Solow
* 1990 – Harry Markowitz
* 1990 – Merton Miller
* 1992 – Gary Becker
* 1993 – Robert Fogel
* 1994 – John Harsanyi
* 1997 – Myron Scholes
* 2001 – Joseph Stiglitz
* 2001 – George A.. Akerlof
* 2002 – Daniel Kahneman
* 2005 – Robert Aumann
Medicine
* 1908 – Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich
* 1914 – Robert Barany
* 1922 – Otto Meyerhof
* 1930 – Karl Landsteiner
* 1931 – Otto Warburg
* 1936 – Otto Loewi
* 1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
* 1944 – Joseph Erlanger
* 1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
* 1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
* 1947 – Gerty Cori
* 1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
* 1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
* 1953 – Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
* 1958 – Joshua Lederberg
* 1959 – Arthur Kornberg
* 1964 – Konrad Bloch
* 1965 – Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff
* 1967 – George Wald
* 1968 – Marshall Nirenberg
* 1969 – Salvador Luria
* 1970 – Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
* 1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
* 1975 – David Baltimore & Howard Temin
* 1976 – Baruch Blumberg
* 1977 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally
* 1978 – Daniel Nathans
* 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
* 1984 – Cesar Milstein
* 1985 – Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein
* 1986 – Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
* 1988 – Gertrude Elion
* 1989 – Harold Varmus
* 1994 – Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
* 1997- Stanley B.. Prusiner
* 1998 – Robert Furchgott
* 2000 – Paul Greengard
* 2002 – H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner
Physics
* 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
* 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
* 1921 – Albert Einstein
* 1922 – Niels Bohr
* 1925 – James Franck & Gustav Hertz
* 1943 – Otto Stern
* 1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
* 1945 – Wolfgang Pauli
* 1952 – Felix Bloch
* 1954 – Max Born
* 1958 – Igor Tamm & Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank
* 1959 РEmilio Segr̬
* 1960 – Donald A.. Glaser
* 1961 – Robert Hofstadter
* 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
* 1963 – Eugene Wigner
* 1965 – Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger
* 1967 – Hans Bethe
* 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
* 1971 – Dennis Gabor
* 1972 – Leon Cooper
* 1973 – Brian David Josephson
* 1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
* 1976 – Burton Richter
* 1978 – Arno Allan Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa
* 1979 – Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow
* 1988 – Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger
* 1990 – Jerome Friedman
* 1992- Georges Charpak
* 1995 – Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines
* 1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee
* 1997 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
* 2000 – Zhores I.. Alferov
* 2003 – Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov
* 2004 – H. David Politzer & David Gross
The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and demanding revenge. The Jews are not promoting the brain washing of children in military training camps; teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.
The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. The Jews don’t have the economic strength of petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world’s media to see “their side” of the conflict.
Perhaps if the world’s Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.
If the Muslims couldn’t spend their time being “enraged” at every perceived slight they might have to start facing the fact that their social and political plight is mostly self-inflicted. It’s easier to hate infidels than to take on the massive job of self improvement. We should remember that the Jews are generally an educated and enlightened people while the average Muslim is a poorly educated poster child for the third world. Violence, blind hatred and ignorance are usually fleas on the same dog. This is not fertile ground for enlightened self improvement.
As you’ve said before, if the Muslims stopped attacking Israel tomorrow, there would be peace in the middle east tomorrow. It’s pretty clear that having oil is not a blessing for primitive societies. On the plus side, in 20-30 years the Mideast should have largely exhausted its oil; if Israel can survive the civil wars that follow the money implosion (particularly in Arabia), the Arabs will be a lot easier to deal with.
Very impressive. However, don’t the numbers provided indicate that the Jews represent about .2 percent of the world’s population rather than .02 percent? That still means the Jews have received almost 23 percent of the Nobel awards or roughly 100 times their relative representation among the population of the world.
It might also be noted that even when the culture of Islam was relatively advanced compared to the culture of Christianity (about seven hundred to twelve hundred years ago) many of the advancements in medicine that have been credited to Islam during that period were actually accomplished by Jewish doctors living within the culture of Islam as second class citizens.
During Arab Islam’s rise the works of the classic Greek philosophers and scientists were translated into Arabic since the Arabs considered them to be worthy of study. The Arabs then advanced beyond the foundation of the Greek astronomer’s ideas to name but one example of Arab Islam’s contribution.
During that time Arab culture adopted the Hindu culture’s numerals leading us to call numerals that are actually of Hindu origin Arabic numerals. The concept of zero often credited to the Arabs is also of Hindu origin though to the credit of the culture of Arab Islam there were important advancements that they made with the concept after embracing it.
Since inventing algebra about seven hundred years ago the culture of Arab Islam has contributed very little if anything of note to the advancement of the human knowledge.
Perhaps never in the history of man has a people’s sense of their culture’s greatness been less justified in the present than in the case of Arab Islam. The culture of Arab Islam has been in decline since their advance in the Iberian Peninsula began to be reversed by the Christians. That was almost seven hundred years ago and almost two hundred years before the Moors were finally expelled from Andalusia.
For many in Arab Islam their present response to their decline is to blame the Jews. If we are to believe that the Jews have stopped Arab Islam doesn’t it necessarily follow that the supposedly great culture of Arab Islam can be stopped. And if we conclude that it can be stopped (especially by such a small group who is asserted to be inferior) doesn’t intellectual honesty oblige us to question Arab Islam’s claim of greatness. Since Islam is supposedly based on the last inspired word of G-d how is one to resolve the conundrum of the advance of the final word of an omnipotent G-d being reversed? Perhaps we should consider the possibility that the standard bearers have corrupted the original message and should no longer trusted.
Arab Islam once embraced reason and the ideas of other cultures including the Jews, Greeks, Hindus and others. In fact reason demands that one be willing to at least consider the ideas of others. So many in Arab Islam now hate the West. The contrary voices in Arab Islam are faint by comparison. This makes it virtually impossible for Arab Islam as a culture to accept reason and good ideas from outside the culture insuring its continued general stagnation and decline. Arab Islam is on a path 180 degrees opposite the path that it once followed to advancement.
Never has a culture achieved greatness by blaming its lack thereof on others. Cultures that advance embrace reason and good ideas from other cultures. Rome embraced Greek ideas. Italy, where the Renaissance began, embraced ideas from Muslim Sicily. The United States founders embraced the ideas of the English John Locke. Because the trajectory of Arab Islam away from reason and the good ideas of other cultures is exactly opposite the path of all cultures that eventually achieved greatness (including itself in the past) we must regrettably conclude that the Renaissance of Arab Islam if it is ever to occur must lie in the future.
For now Arab Islam represents a plague in the global village. The argument that the theocratic fascists don’t speak for all of Islam is perhaps true but completely beside the point. The body of Islam is gravely ill and represents a threat to itself and its neighbors. If that body lacks the will or capacity to purge itself of its sickness and continues to resist offers of help, the fact that parts of the body are healthy is irrelevant to the present risk the sick parts represent to the health of the community of man. An immigration policy based on the principle of quarantine is certainly warranted.
What a frighteningly long and deep decline of a culture. What a tremendously scary fall from grace. What a pathetic self inflicted waste of human potential.
Surely Allah weeps.