Demographics: Muslim vs Jewish

This one landed in my INBOX through the internet email forwards circuit.

Rarely are we able to come across such revealing statistics.

(Just one bit of information here appears incongrous to me - about the size of Buddhist population in the world!

More importantly though, the contents here just emphasise the need for priorities in life; the importance of education for all - the importance of literacy, creativity, of gaining knowledge and disseminating knowledge....

 

The web link to this on the internet is available at: http://www.defence.pk/forums/members-club/19673-extracts-speech-hafez-b-mohamed-director-general-al-baraka-bank.html

 

Extracts from the speech by Hafez A.B Mohamed: Director-General, Al Baraka Bank. Demographics: o World Jewish Population. 14 million o Distribution: 7 m in America 5 m in Asia 2 m in Europe 100 thousand in Africa o World Muslim Population: 1.5 billion o Distribution: 1 billion in Asia/Mid-East 400 M in Africa 44 M in Europe 6 M in the Americas o Every fifth human being is a Muslim. o For every single Hindu there are two Muslims o For every Buddhist there are two Muslims o For every Jew there are 107 Muslims o Yet the 14 million Jews are more powerful than the entire 1.5 billion Muslims Why? Here are some of the reasons. Movers of Current History o Albert Einstein Jewish o Sigmund Freud Jewish o Karl Marx Jewish o Paul Samuelson Jewish o Milton Friedman Jewish Medical Milestones o Vaccinating Needle: Benjamin Ruben Jewish o Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk Jewish o Leukaemia Drug Gertrude Elion Jewish o Hepatitis B Baruch Blumberg Jewish o Syphilis Drug Paul Ehrlich Jewish o Neuro muscular Elie Metchnikoff Jewish o Endocrinology Andrew Schally Jewish o Cognitive therapy. Aaron Beck Jewish o Contraceptive Pill Gregory Pincus Jewish o Understanding of Human Eye. G. Wald Jewish o Embryology. Stanley Cohen Jewish o Kidney Dialysis Willem Kloffcame Jewish Nobel Prize Winners o In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst 1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners Inventions that changed History o Micro- Processing Chip. Stanley Mezor Jewish o Nuclear Chain Reactor Leo Sziland Jewish o Optical Fibre Cable Peter Schultz Jewish o Traffic Lights Charles Adler Jewish o Stainless Steel Benno Strauss Jewish o Sound Movies Isador Kisee Jewish o Telephone Microphone Emile Berliner Jewish o Video Tape Recorder Charles Ginsburg Jewish Influential Global Business o Polo Ralph Lauren Jewish o Coca Cola Jewish o Levi's Jeans Levi Strauss Jewish o Sawbuck's Howard Schultz Jewish o Google Sergey Brin Jewish o Dell Computers Michael Dell Jewish o Oracle Larry Ellison Jewish o DKNY Donna Karan Jewish o Baskin & Robbins Irv Robbins Jewish o Dunkin Donuts Bill Rosenberg Jewish Influential Intellectuals/ Politicians o Henry Kissinger , US Sec of State Jewish o Richard Levin, PresidentYaleUniver sity Jewish o Alan Greenspan , US Federal Reserve Jewish o Joseph Lieberman Jewish o Madeleine Albright , US Sec of State Jewish o CasperWeinberger , US Sec of Defence Jewish o Maxim Litvinov , USSR Foreign Minister Jewish o DavidMarshal , Singapore Chief Minister Jewish o Isaacs Isaacs, Gov-GenAustralia Jewish o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman Jewish o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM Jewish o Barry Goldwater , US Politician Jewish o Jorge Sampaio, President Portugal Jewish o Herb Gray, Canadian Deputy - PM Jewish o Pierre Mendes, French PM Jewish o Michael Howard, British Home Sec. Jewish o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor Jewish o Robert Rubin , US Sec of Treasury Jewish Global Media Influential o Wolf Blitzer, CNN Jewish o Barbara Walters ABC News Jewish o EugeneMeyer , Washington Post Jewish o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine Jewish o Katherine Graham , Washington Post Jewish o Joseph Lelyeld, New York Times Jewish o Max Frankel, New York Times Jewish Global Philanthropists o George Soros Jewish o Walter Annenberg Jewish Why are they powerful? why are Muslims powerless? Here's another reason. We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge. o In the entire Muslim World (57 Muslim Countries) there are only 500 universities. o In USA alone, 5,758 universities o In India alone, 8,407 universities o Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500 Ranking Universities of the World o Literacy in the Christian World 90% o Literacy in the Muslim World 40% o 15 Christian majority-countries, literacy rate 100% o Muslim majority - countries , None o 98% in Christian countries completed primary o Only 50% in Muslim countries completed primary. o 40% in Christian countries attended university o In Muslim countries a dismal 2% attended. o Muslim majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims o The USA has 5000 per million o The Christian world 1000 technicians per million. o Entire Arab World only 50 technicians per million. o Muslim World spends on research/developmen t 0.2% of GDP o Christian World spends 5 % of GDP Conclusion. o The Muslim World lacks the capacity to produce knowledge. Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of diffusing knowledge. o Pakistan 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens o Singapore 460 per 1000 citizens. o In UK book titles per million is 2000 o In Egypt book titles per million is only 17 Conclusion. o Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge Applying Knowledge is another such test. o Exports of high tech products from Pakistan is 0.9% of its exports. o In Saudi Arabia is 0.2% o Kuwait , Morocco and Algeria 0.3% o Singapore alone is 68% Conclusion. o Muslim World is failing to apply knowledge. What do you conclude? Advice: Please educate yourself and your children. always promote education, don't compromise on it, don't ignore your children's slightest misguidance from education (and please, for God's Sake, don't use your personal contacts or sources to promote your children in their education; if they fail, let them and make them learn to pass; b/c if they can't do it now, they can't ever). We are World's biggest and strongest nation, all we need is to identify and explore our ownselves. Our victory is with our knowledge, our creativity, our literacy...And nothing else.

Cranky old man....

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For all my young friends

Very true words indeed .. ..

Some of us are already there...

For sure, we'll all be there!!!!!!!

 

CRANKY OLD MAN When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in country Queensland it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Melbourne . The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas editions of magazines around the country and appearing in mags for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. And this old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet. Cranky Old Man What do you see nurses? . .  . . .What do you see? What are you thinking .. . . . . when you're looking at me? A cranky old man, . . .  . . .not very wise, Uncertain of habit .. . . . . . . . with faraway eyes? Who dribbles his food .. . .. . . . . and makes no reply. When you say in a loud voice . . . . .. 'I do wish you'd try!' Who seems not to notice . .  . . .the things that you do. And forever is losing . . . . . . . . . . A sock or shoe? Who, resisting or not .. . . . . . . . . . . lets you do as you will, With bathing and feeding  . . . . . .The long day to fill? Is that what you're thinking?  . . . . . .  Is that what you see? Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . . . you're not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am . . . . . . . As I sit here so still, As I do at your bidding, . . . . . . as I eat at your will. I'm a small child of Ten . . . . . . . with a father and mother, Brothers and sisters .. . . . . . . . who love one another A young boy of Sixteen . . . . . with wings on his feet Dreaming that soon now . . . . .. . . a lover he'll meet. A groom soon at Twenty . . . . . . . my heart gives a leap. Remembering, the vows .. . . . . . that I promised to keep. At Twenty-Five, now . . . . . ... . . . . I have young of my own. Who need me to guide . . . . And a secure happy home. A man of Thirty . . . . . . . . .. My young now grown fast, Bound to each other . . . . . . . With ties that should last. At Forty, my young sons .. . . . . have grown and are gone, But my woman is beside me . . . . . . . to see I don't mourn. At Fifty, once more, .  . . . . . ..Babies play 'round my knee, Again, we know children . . . . . . . My loved one and me. Dark days are upon me .  . . . . . . . My wife is now dead. I look at the future ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . I shudder with dread. For my young are all rearing . . . . . . young of their own. And I think of the years . . .. . . . . And the love that I've known. I'm now an old man . . . . . . . . . and nature is cruel. It's jest to make old age . . . . . . . look like a fool. The body, it crumbles .. . . . ... . . . . . grace and vigor, depart. There is now a stone .. . . . . .. . where I once had a heart. But inside this old carcass .  . . .. A young man still dwells, And now and again . . . .. . . . my battered heart swells I remember the joys . .. . . . . . . . .. . I remember the pain. And I'm loving and living . . . . .. . . . . . . . . life over again. I think of the years . all too few . . . . . . gone too fast. And accept the stark fact . . . . . . . . that nothing can last. So open your eyes, people . . . . . . . . open and see. Not a cranky old man .   Look closer . . . . see . . . . . .. . ME!! Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within . . . . . we will all, one day, be there, too!  You May like to SHARE THIS POEM The best and most beautiful things of this world can't be seen or touched. They must be felt by the heart.