This video is a mirror from Netwriter a highly recommended channel one of the few channels I know where every video is worth a watch. http://www.youtube.com/user/Netwriter This is a video response to the Thunderf00t video 'The Real threat from Islam' I think Thunderf00t's observation suffered from a quantitative approach with a qualitative analysis as included here the situation is actually far worse. "of all civilizations on this planet, science is weakest in the lands of Islam. The dangers of this weakness cannot be over-emphasized since the honorable survival of a society depends directly on its science and technology in the condition of the present age" - Abdus Salam (1979 Nobel Laureate for Physics) Since Netwriter made his video there are some amendments which need to be made to the list as you will find different lists on the web. So I have compiled all the 'claimed' Nobel Laureates and identified which ones are genuinely Muslim. The remaining few have either been declared non Muslim or been charged with saying something anti Islamic. I would say the total is still remains at 7 with 5 of them being for the 'peace prizes' which of course are completely unrelated to anything intellectual or scientific. Only 5 'peace prizes' out of 80 for the religion of 'peace'. For further reading http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/03/muslim_inventions_nobel_prizes.html From a pool of 1.5 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people) Literature 1957 - Albert Camus - neither Arab nor Muslim 1988 - Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian Muslim (subjected to a Fatwa) 2006 - Orhan Pamuk - Turkish Muslim in name only Peace 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat 2003 - Shirin Ebadi 2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei 2006 - Muhammad Yunus Chemistry 1990 - Elias James Corey - neither Arab nor Muslim 1999 - Ahmed Zewail - Egyptian Arab, Muslim in Name Only Medicine 1960 Peter Brian Medawar - neither Arab nor Muslim 1998 Ferid Murad - neither Arab nor Muslim Physics 1979 - Abdus Salam - Punjabi Ahmadiyya sect (declared non-muslim) Peter Medawar - was NOT a Muslim he was an atheist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar "I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it" Peter Medawar 1984. 'The question of the existence of God' in The limits of science Harper and Row. Ferid Murad - was NOT a Muslim he was Episcopalian. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/murad-autobio.html "my father was Muslim, my mother Baptist and we were raised in a Catholic community. Subsequently, my brothers became Catholic when they married Catholic wives and I was baptized Episcopalian in college. My wife of more than forty years is Presbyterian, two of our daughters married Jewish men and one married a Catholic man." Elias James Corey - was NOT a Muslim http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1990/corey-autobio.html "My grandparents on both sides, who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States, also knew how to cope with adversity, as Christians in a tragically torn country, under the grip of the Ottoman empire" Naguib Mahfouz - Egyptian Muslim http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5299686.stm Had a fatwa issued against him and was stabbed Orhan Pamuk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk In 2005, after Pamuk made a statement regarding the mass killings of Armenians and Kurds in the Ottoman Empire, a criminal case was opened against the author based on a complaint filed by ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerinçsiz.[21] The charges were dropped on 22 January 2006. Rallies were held to burn his books.[22] Pamuk has subsequently stated his intent was to draw attention to freedom of expression issues. Abdus Salam (declared non-muslim) http://www.islam-watch.org/Brahmachari/Persecution-of-Pakistani-Nobel-Laureate-Abdus-Salam-Ahmadiyya.htm "of all civilizations on this planet, science is weakest in the lands of Islam. The dangers of this weakness cannot be over-emphasized since the honorable survival of a society depends directly on its science and technology in the condition of the present age" 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 abeled as a "terrorist."

• published: 23 Oct 2010
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