Posted on 08/09/2013 11:21:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Controversial atheist British professor Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage in a tweet he made deriding the lack of academic achievements by Muslims.
On Thursday, the best-selling author of "The God Delusion," tweeted that: "All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.”
That post provoked a slew of outraged responses, including accusations of "racism," and "Islamophobia."
Responding to the fierce criticism, Dawkins retorted in another tweet: "Muslims aren't a race. What they have in common is a religion. Rather than Trinity, would you prefer the comparison with Jews? Google it."
In a later tweet explaining why he chose to single out Muslims, he responded: "Why mention Muslim Nobels rather than any other group? Because we so often hear boasts about (a) their total numbers and (b) their science."
Writing in the UK Guardian newspaper, Muslim author and commentator Nesrine Malik wrote slammed the comments, claiming that whilst "...it is technically true that fewer Muslims (10) than Trinity College Cambridge members (32) have won Nobel prizes," the comparison was not a fair one since you could "insert pretty much any other group of people instead of ‘Muslims’, and the statement would be true. You are comparing a specialized academic institution to an arbitrarily chosen group of people."
“Dawkins is really trying to say… that Muslims as a unit throughout history have done nothing since the Middle Ages,” she concluded.
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They did give us camel racing...
There was Damascus steel, great for killing people. There was mobile light cavalry, great for killing people. There was also Islam, great for justifying killing people for fun and profit.
Why does anyone care that they might be labeled a racist? After all, those who really ARE racists aren’t labeled as such, so why do they care? It’s a false label and has no basis in reality anyway.
I would call that an accurate statement.
good for Richard Dawkins.... he used to sign anti-Israel petitions. Atheist Dawkins is slowing figuring out that Islam fanatics are a threat to his way of life, that Christians are not
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/497795/20130808/tanzania-acid-attack-katie-gee-kristie-trup.htm
I think you are mostly right. (Thought I’m not sure ideas can be stolen — credit for originating them can be fraudulently claimed, but ideas are the common patrimony of mankind, not property.) To the extent Muslims extended human knowledge, it was mostly by making marginal, obvious, additions to what they encountered in societies they conquered. Their best claim — algebra — is basically just Greek Diophantine equations improved by the use of the Hindu concept of zero. They were just starting empirical science when their near-universal adoption of Al Ghazali’s occasionalism completely destroyed science among Muslims until they started (in violation of their religious commitments if they adhere to a fiqh that followed Al Ghazali) picking it up from the modern West in the 20th century.
Well, Damascus steel was invented in India (probably) and light cavalry was only possible after the invention of the stirrup, invented in China. I still say they never invented anything of use. :-)
either Dawkins has to bow down and lick the Muslim boots like the rest of the left or he needs to try to find some new allies.
Which is exactly what Dawkins would say about Christianity.
Islam has NOTHING to do with race... idiots :p
14 million Jews worldwide.
The 21st century’s Luddites are good at innovation. They take western inventions that enable mankind in transportation and communication: like airplanes and cell phones, and turn them into weapons of mass murder.
And just recently they demonstrated their facility in taking a simple kitchen appliance and using it to murder and maim children, women and men at a sporting event.
Yes, ‘devout’ Muslims are rabid, backward/superstitious murderous retards. Dawkins was too generous in just pointing out their complete reliance on the west for modern civilization. These primitive savages must bate us for that reason alone, while also explaining their bizarre desire to re-live the 7th century like the movie ‘Groundhog Day.’
“All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.”
They are tops in the world in oppression murder and terrorism though... Has to count for something....
Jews, Arabs, Nobel Prize
The Global Islamic population is approximately 2,000,000,000 or 33% of
the world’s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics: (zero)
Physics: (zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: SEVEN
HOWEVER:
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world’s population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pa sternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer 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
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phil lips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Joseph son
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Mil ton Friedman
1978 - Herb ert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1 990 - Merton Miller
199220- Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Ed elman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Ed ward B. Lewis
TOTAL: 129
The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing 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, or blow
themselves upin German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that
has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by
killing people.
The Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and
death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard
education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for humankind’ before they demand
that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the
Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more
culpability on Israel ‘s part, the following two sentences really say it
all:
‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more
violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’ -Benjamin Netanyahu
Just goona grab some popcorn and watch...
Not many. I referred to population of Jews in Israel, but used very rough figures. About 6 million Jews in Israel, but many are young children or very old. So I said a million. Point is, a very tiny country of roughly 1/thousandth the number of people, outperforms the Muslim community by huge amounts.
The world's second highest per capita rate of published books, the highest ratio of university degrees in the world, produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation, and one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed, has the third largest number of NASDAQ listed companies, behind the U.S. and Canada, and is ranked second for venture capital funds, leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, and Israel developed the cell phone, Windows NT and XP operating systems, Pentium MMX Chip technology, the Pentium-4 microprocessor, the Centrino Processor, voice mail technology, and AOL Instant Messenger ICQ. Among many more accomplishments.
Muslims can't stand the thought of Jews in their midst, partly because of comparisons.
See. It’s a conspiracy./sarc
They also get the most sympathy from academics, hollyweird and the MSM. That tells you a lot.
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