The following viral email has something unusual going on in it – it contains truth. It is about Jewish accomplishments in science, economics and literature – they are far disproportionate to their relative numbers in the human population. Of course, the base goal of the email is to degrade Muslims, and the origin is probably in the basement of some stupid right wing Christian.
I answered this email as follows:
Since this is one of those annoying viral emails, it doesn’t deserve a lot of attention. I will only tell you that you are on the precipice of important information. The Jewish culture has indeed produced scholars, artists and scientists far out of proporttion to their numbers. Some have traced the origins of this phenomenon back to the Ashkenazi Jews of northern and central Europe. But it is much more complicated than that, and further research would be warranted on your part.
Just a few observations:
One, Jewish accomplishments far exceed those of all gentiles, not just Muslims. I don’t know what the point is here.
Two, Jewish people, very, very intellectually accomplished, don’t believe in Jesus. Maybe you should rethink your position on that.
Third, and not unrelated, there are very few Jewish Cy Young Award winners. I can only think of one: Sandy Koufax. There are no Jewish linemen in the NFL.
And finally, there are about 13 million Jews in the world today, yet your Revelations tells us that only 144,000 will survive – 12,000 each from the twelve tribes. Your Jesus is going to slaughter all the rest.
What’s up with that?
Very interesting article here, by Charles Murray.
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Here’s the email making the rounds:
How could the picture be ‘painted’ any more vividly? The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world’s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 – Najib MahfoozPeace:
1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 – Elias James Corey
1994 – Yaser Arafat:
1999 – Ahmed ZewaiEconomics:
Physics:
Medicine:
1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
1998 – Ferid MouradTOTAL: 7 SEVEN
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000. Only FOURTEEN MILLION 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 Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agno
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer WorldPeace:
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 RabinPhysics:
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
196 2 – Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 – Julian Schwinger
1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1971 – Dennis Gabor
1972 – William Howard Stein
1973 – Brian David Josephson
1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
1976 – Burton Richter
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1978 – Arno Allan Penzias
1978 – P eter 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. HeegerEconomics:
1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 – Simon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Simon
1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Markowitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert FogelMedicine:
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 Abraham 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 Edelman
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 – Edward B. Lewis
Piece of Mindful 
Banal. Nobel Prizes are like Oscars or Country Music Awards. Henry Kissinger? Peace? Really?
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Agreed. Screw the peace prize. Henry Kissinger won it as he was overseeing the slaughter of Vietnamese.
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Yea, I’ll match your Henry Kissinger and raise you one Arafat.
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So Ladybug, Mark T and Swede all agree the Peace Prize is sullied with bloody hands.
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On the other hand, Yahweh, like Allah, never seemed to mind the spilling of a little blood to teach a lesson. Monotheists share more in common than they often “believe.”
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Muslims are not fond of Jews. There is NO basis of truth in this post.
I suppose you are in favor of the mosque in NYC?
Ymch Shmo
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