UNBELIEVABLE AND WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM.

UNBELIEVABLE AND WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM. 

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist. It sure makes interesting reading... Particularly coming from a Pakistani official.

By: Dr Farrukh Saleem

Why are Jews so powerful

There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas , five million in Asia, two million in

Europe and 100,000 in Africa.

For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims.

Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together.

Ever wondered why?

Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.

Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time and

TIME magazine's 'Person of the Century', was a Jew.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew.

So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output

Has enriched the whole humanity:

Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.

Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.

Albert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine.

Gertrude Elion gave us a leukemia fighting drug.

Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.

Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis.

Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases.

Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission.

Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology.

Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy. 

Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.

George Wald won a Nobel for our understanding of the human eye.

Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology.

Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel Prizes

have been won by 1.4 billion Muslims (other than Peace Prizes).

Why are Jews so powerful?

Stanley Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip.

Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor;

Peter Schultz, optical fibre cable;

Charles Adler, traffic lights;

Benno Strauss, Stainless steel;

Isador Kisee, sound movies;

Emile Berliner, telephone microphone;

Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include

Ralph Lauren (Polo),

Levis Strauss (Levi's Jeans),

Howard Schultz (Starbuck's) ,

Sergey Brin (Google),

Michael Dell (Dell Computers),

Larry Ellison (Oracle),

Donna Karan (DKNY),

Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins) and

Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Donuts).

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew. So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state),

Alan Greenspan (Fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman (US Senator),

Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper

Weinberger (American secretary of defense), Maxim Litvinov ( USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal

( Singapore 's first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia ), Benjamin

 Disraeli (British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater (US Senator),

Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal ), John Deutsch (CIA director), Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM),

Pierre Mendes (French PM), Michael Howard (British home Secretary), Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria )

and Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury).

In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer

(Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyveld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New York Times).

The most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far

donated a colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around the world.

Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an

estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning seven gold medals; Lenny Krayzelburg is

a three-time Olympic gold medalist.

Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker (Tennis) are all Jewish.

Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal,

Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas,

Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all Jewish?

As a matter of fact, Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew. Among directors and producers, Steven Spielberg,

Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling ( Beverly Hills 90210), Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Andrew Vaina

(Rambo 1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky andHutch), Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest),

Douglas Fairbanks (The Thief of Baghdad ) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.

So, why are Jews so powerful?

Answer : EDUCATION 

Why are Muslims so powerless? 

There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet: one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa,

44 million in Europe and six million in the Americas . Every fifth human being is a Muslim; for every single Hindu

there are two Muslims, for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?

Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them

put together have around 500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims. The United States has

5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' ,

and intriguingly, not one university from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15

Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is

no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world had completed primary school, while less than 50

per cent of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attended university while no more than two per cent

of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims.

The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.

In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is 35,000 and there are only 50 technicians

per one million Arabs. (in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).

Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while the Christian

world spends around five per cent of its GDP.

Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per million are two indicators of whether knowledge

is being diffused in a society.

In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis while the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK ,

the number of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge. 

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports are an important indicator of knowledge

application. Pakistan 's export of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at one per cent.

The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent, while Singapore is

at 58 per cent.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge. 

Why are Muslims powerless?

.....Because we aren't producing knowledge,

....Because we aren't diffusing knowledge.,

.....Because we aren't applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.

Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.

America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion;

China $8 trillion, Japan $3.8 trillion and

Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services

(mostly oil) worth $500 billion;

Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion,

Catholic Poland $489 billion and

Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

..... (Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast declining). 

So, why are Muslims so powerless?

Answer: Lack of education. 

All we do is shout to Allah the whole day !!! and blame everyone else for our multiple failures!!!!!

  

RED SANDERS

Bloodsanders- High returns and no investment

K.Chandramouli, IAS (Rtd.)

former Collector Kadapa and

presently  Director General, Centre for Development Studies, Hyderabad.

As children we have grown in Chittoor town in the heart of which there is a beautiful forest tucked away on to the east of what used to be a huge tank during 1960s. The forest, thanks to the efforts of many successive Collectors and forest officers, is still full of red sanders ( Pterocarpus santalinus ). When I say full, it actually is with about 60 plus percent of only red sanders, 20 percent tamarind and the rest with other species, shrubs and scrubs.

Many of us grew up visiting the forest, playing under red sanders and particularly during Vanabhojanam festivity, dined under them and remembered those wonderful moments for the next 50 years.

Red sanders to us was like any other tree, puzzled many times why it was  called both in Tamil and  Telugu “Raktha chandanam” (Wikipedia also names it  the same). For all the people who knew of this tree, it only meant a wood from which small hand pound sticks were made for grinding and pounding grains, millets, spices, etc. At times a quack practicing Ayurveda or Unani would have said its sap or wood was used in preparation of certain medicines. And there was one village, Settigunta in

Never  we thought Raktha chandanam,  which when translated, literally means   blood sandal wood may actually be licking the blood and snuffing away the lives of committed and disciplined forest department officials in the years to come. Raktha chandanam has started commanding incredible, skyrocketed prices driving many unscrupulous timber mechants, antisocial elements and  criminals into the business of indiscriminate and unkind hacking and smuggling of it. The incident that occurred on 16^th December, 2013 in Sheshachalam forest near Tirumala hills, resulting in the death of two forest officers is not only inhuman but speaks volumes about the way red sanders had found its route from the humble triangle of Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa forests to the most glitzy streets of Japan and China. Smugglers and the  labour engaged to hack them down, mostly from Tamilnadu,  have found the easy and large money involved in smuggling red sanders and for a long time limited their activities only to destroying forests. But now, the kind of money involved in smuggling red sanders has made all of them mad and blood licking demons, completely unmindful of the consequences.

I remember the days as Collector, Kadapa district I would be visiting the interior villages in the forests of Rayachoti, Rajampet, Chitvel, Budwel, etc., when the villagers would compel me to have a tumbler of coffee and I would also oblige. They would start making fire right in the open, a few feet away from us with wood deep reddish brown in colour. Many times I had asked them looking at the firewood used for boiling milk and making coffee as to what wood it was and got an answer that it was Raktha chandanam.   

Looking at the inexplicable exorbitant price the wood commands at present I now  feel elated that I was sipping coffee made with red sanders as fuel wood.

But the fact that the smugglers have grown in to such an organized mafia that can go to the extent of killing officers in the uniformed services while discharging their legitimate duties is not only scary but also explains how a much worse situation is in the offing. Not too far in the past we had witnesswd how one destroyer of forests, Veerappan had thrown up huge and incomprehensible  challenges killing animals and humans alike and at times resorted to kidnapping important people for ransoms.   As compared to that what is happening in Seshachalam range of forests is more dangerous and ecologically a permanent loss.  As against Sandalwood involved in Mysore forests, it is red sanders here which is not available anywhere else in the world and as against one smuggler in the former, it’s gangs of large numbers in the latter. And what’s worse is the wood cutters are from Tamilnadu, especially Tiruvannamalai,  Salem,  Dharmapuri and Vellore districts and are notorious for their ferocious attacks on Police and Forest officials.  They visit the forests in large groups of 75 to 125 and just not worried about  the punishments in the event of getting caught in the act.

Thus, redsanders which was never a timber of great value had over years became literally blood sanders with no scent to either policy makers, forest officials or scientists as to what is the ultimate use it is put to in the countries smuggling the wood through all kinds of clandestine means.

The whole country woke up to the ghastly incident of two forest officials getting killed by the smugglers in Sheshachalam forest on 16^th December 2013. It is not just what it appears to be. There must be huge and powerful mafia behind the whole smuggling operation due to the easy and quick buck involved in it. Infact, a former CM of Andhra Pradesh had gone to the extent of blaming some of the people in public life holding positions.

If that is the magnitude of the problem, which I wish must not be true, the entire administration today should gear itself up to prevent this atrocities from recurring.

In order to make that happen, there are a few steps Governments, both at the Centre and in the State of Andhra Pradesh should immediately take up so that,   such barbarous acts can be prevented. They are as follows :

i.             As majority of the wood cutters brought as labour are from the district of Tamilnadu, a high level committee consisting of the forest, police, revenue and even elected public representatives should consider meeting frequently and establish surveillance jointly ;

ii.           Police and forest officials should start functioning in tandem sinking all their egos and differences and consider protecting red sanders as a joint responsibility / challenge;

iii.          Unless people and elected representatives of Panchayat Raj system, more importantly Sarpanches and ward members, are involved to protect these forest, mere Government officers’ efforts would only be proved futile.,

iv.          The youth in the villages located in and around these forests are oriented and empowered as in the case of Bharath Nirman Volunteers (an initiative of Rural Development Ministry, GoI) can prove very effective in preventing smuggling. A case study in this regard, of a village called Kotala in Chandragiri mandal of Chittoor district is worth mentioning. The Bharath Nirman Volunteers in that village have actually caught a group of violet red sander smugglers, seized the timber and handed them over to police apart from being vigilant ever since. Another incident after that has never recurred during the last two years.

v.            Government of Andhra Pradesh should provide fire arms to the forest officials and should also empower them to issue firing orders in the event of a serious threat of retaliation by the smugglers.

vi.          The Governments, both AP and Tamilnadu should start probing in to the  nefarious connections smugglers have with the bigwigs and uprooot all such networks to be permanently eliminated by adopting such means to any extent.

vii.         The district administration in Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa and Ananthapuramu should carry out awareness camps to the general public in order to inculcate a sense of pride in them that red sanders is rare and available only in these parts and therefore, it’s a great matter of joy, pleasure and responsibility of them to prevent any damage to these pristine and glorious forests.