Interesting page. I particularly like how the author of it, based upon a single criteria (relative number of Nobel prize winners) draws the sweeping conclusion that:
"Unless the Swedes and Norwegians start awarding Nobel Prizes for plane hijackings, pizza shop bombings, civilian bus attacks, Jihad suicides/homicides, drive-by shootings, throat-slittings, embassy attacks and other such acts of barbarisms, the embarrassing low level of contribution to the welfare of Civilization and Mankind by the [Arab] Muslim world will continue."
Calling 1.4 billion people "barbarians" (to paraphrase the long quote) is quite a sweeping generalization. Certainly out of any group of 1.4 million people you're going to have your share of fanatics and nutjobs, but that's a pretty broad brush he uses to paint this whole ethnic/religious group with.
As to to why Arabs produce disproportionately fewer Nobel prize winners, there are probably many factors. I somehow doubt, though, that its simply because they're all committing hijackings, bombings, bus attacks, shootings, and throat-slittings; for if that were true there'd be none of us left to talk about it.
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