Intellectual output from the Muslim world....?

Question

So why do Jews, who comprise 0.2 % of the world's population (14 million people) win way way more Nobel Prizes than Muslims, who comprise 20% of the world's population (1.4 billion people)?

There have been only 750 Nobel prizes awarded so far. Out of these 750, fully 165 have been Jews, or 22%. Jews are hence, vastly overrepresented in academia. Out of the 750, only 6 have been Muslims ( 0.008%, or eight one-thousandths of a percent), meaning that Muslims are vastly, vastly underrepresented in the academic fields.

The 6 Muslim winners are as follows:
Lit
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace (hehehehehehe)
1978 - Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yasser Arafat
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
Chem
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Physics
Abdus Salam

Out of the 165 Jews :

Lit, World Peace, Chem, Physics, Medicine, and Economics prizes

The vast majority 74% of these awards were in the scientific fields (medicine, chem, physics). Out of the 165 Jews who won Nobel prizes, 126 were in the science fields).

Oh ya here's some more stuff.....

Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he labeled a terrorist.

According to their vast numbers, one might expect Muslims to win 24,920 Nobel Prizes, not just 6.
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Analyze that. Why only 6? Are you going to deny facts again and claim that Nobel was anti-Muslim or something, lol.

First answer, you're such a loser. Just admit your religion has no brainy people, LOL.

So we are making up excuses, eh?

Answer 1

Well, dont you know the answer, the prize givers, are the Jews.

Answer 2

Religious fundamentalism stifles scientific progress.

Also note that you're talking about a group of 1.2 billion people. They will vary by age, education, and socioeconomic status.

Most of the contributions of Muslims were a very long time ago, in advancements in Astronomy and Mathematics, and preserving some of the ancient texts of the Greeks. Notice that today's fanaticism is incompatible with scientific progress. You see many doctors and engineers, but nobody who really pushes outside the established fields. In a theocracy, who would want to stick out their neck to study evolutionary biology when a textbook says that Jews are pigs?

Answer 3

Well given that the muslim world gave us advanced mathematics, the concept of zero, and contributed a great deal (through both correspondance and response) to the intellectual philosophy and science of the renaissance and enlightenment, yes...it is a suprise.
On the other hand, since the Western world has risen to prominence it isn't suprising that the vast majority of advancement has been where all the money and power is (excluding the oil industry, which does not in itself spawn scientific progress...), or that westerners havent heard of much Muslim literature and art because there are so few translations and dispersals.
Just a thought.

Answer 4

Just goes to show, even liberal theocracies stifle free inquiry.


Religion?? I am a pantheist and have no religion, as I am defacto, atheist. Do you read, loser? I was agreeing with your position on Nobel prize winners not being muslim and giving the reason why.
Now, I am sure it was not you who framed the question, as you are too ignorant to have done so.

Answer 5

What is the ratio of literate to illiterate people in the Muslim world? Keep in mind that a great number of the Muslims are poor and in Third World countries.

Not to mention the fact that radical Muslims want to force everyone back into the 14th Century.
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Answer 6

Interesting.

I know little of the process by which the Nobel Prize is chosen, but this does make one think.

Answer 7

Ah, yes, but now let's hear how many were atheists!