Why are Jews so powerful?

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 theAmericas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 inAfrica. For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet,Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslimsput together.

Ever wondered why?Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish. Albert Einstein, the most influentialscientist of all time and TIME magazine's 'Person of the Century', was aJew. Sigmund Freud -- id, ego, superego -- the father of psychoanalysiswas a Jew. So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has enriched thewhole 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 transmitteddisease).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 endocrinesystem; diabetes, hyperthyroidism).Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mentaldisorders, depression and phobias).Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.George Wald won a Nobel for furthering our understanding of the humaneye.Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology (study of embryos and theirdevelopment).

Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizeswhile 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 firstmicro-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; EmileBerliner, telephone microphone and Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faithinclude Ralph Lauren (Polo), Levis Strauss (Levi's Jeans), HowardSchultz (Starbuck's), Sergey Brin (Google), Michael Dell (DellComputers), 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 (Americansecretary of state), Alan Greenspan (fed chairman under Reagan, Bush,Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman, Madeleine Albright (Americansecretary of state), Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defence),Maxim Litvinov (USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal (Singapore's firstchief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia), BenjaminDisraeli (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 (FrenchPM), Michael Howard (British home secretary), Bruno Kreisky (chancellorof Austria) and Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury)

In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters (ABCNews), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chiefTime), Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), JosephLelyyeld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (NewYork Times).

Can you name the most beneficent philanthropist in the history of theworld?

The name is George Soros , a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universitiesaround the world. Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, anotherJew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2billion.At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by wining seven goldmedals.

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, CharlesBronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, PeterSellers, 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. Amongdirectors 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), MilosForman (One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), Douglas Fairbanks (The thiefof Baghdad) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.

To be certain, Washington is the capital that matters and in Washingtonthe lobby that matters is The American Israel Public Affairs Committee,or AIPAC. Washington knows that if PM Ehud Olmert were to discover thatthe earth is flat, AIPAC will make the 109th Congress pass a resolutioncongratulating Olmert on his discovery.William James Sidis, with an IQ of 250-300, is the brightest human whoever 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 sixmillion in the Americas.

Everyfifth human being is a Muslim; for every single Hindu there are twoMuslims, for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jewthere are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?

Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation ofIslamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around 500universities; one university for every three million Muslims. The UnitedStates has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407. In 2004, ShanghaiJiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking of WorldUniversities', and intriguingly, not one university from Muslim-majoritystates was in the top-500.As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian worldstands at nearly 90 per cent and15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacyrate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with aliteracy rate o100 per cent.Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world had completedprimary school, while less than 50 per cent of the 'literates' in theMuslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attendeduniversity while no more than two per cent of the 'literates' in theMuslim 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 is35,000 and there are only 50technicians per one million Arabs (in theChristian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on researchand development, while the Christian world spends around five per centof its GDP.

Conclusion:
The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per millionare two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society.In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis whilethe same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK, the number of booktitles 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 arean important indicator of knowledge application.Pakistan's exports of high technology products as a percentage of totalexports stands at one per cent.

The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeriaare all at 0.3 per cent while Singapore is at58 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 $2trillion. America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12trillion; China $8 trillion, Japan $3.8 trillion and Germany $2.4trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goodsand services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion; Spain alone producesgoods and services worth over $1 trillion, Catholic Poland $489 billionand Buddhist Thailand $545 billion (Muslim GDP as a percentage of worldGDP is fast declining).

So, why are Muslims so powerless?
Answer: Lack of education.
Quality education to be exact.Uncontaminated education to be precise