Answer: Education. (Read on .. )
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 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. 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 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 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 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
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 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?
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 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.
I pray may Allah award us with health, wealth and
EDUCATOIN on behalf of this illuminating and
enlightening day of 15th Sha'ban.