By Peter Burrows 3/8/22 elburropete@gmail.com

In the Koran, which is the eternal and infallible word of God, we are told that Jews and Christians are "the worst of creatures." God then tells us that Muslims are the "best of creatures." Elsewhere in the Koran, God clarifies that Muslims are not just the best relative to Jews and Christians, but that Muslims are "the best of people ever raised up for mankind."

God also tells us that between Jews and Christians, it is the Jews who are "the most hostile" to Muslims while Christians "are closest to feeling affection" for Muslims. Thus, of the two "worst of creatures," God leaves no doubt that the worst of the worst are the Jews.

These revelations, some 1400 years ago, came at the beginning of Islam while Judaism had been around for hundreds of years. The Jews obviously far outnumbered the Muslims then, but Muslims are fierce proselytizers, and in only a decade or two they outnumbered the Jews, who are anything but fierce proselytizers. Today, the world population of Muslims is about 1.8 billion and the Jews only about 15.2 million, a ratio of over 100 to one.

The Koran, however, does not say that Muslims were destined to be the MOST people, but that they are, and always will be, the BEST people. Since the Allah of Islam is all-knowing, all-wise, omniscient and omnipotent, surely after 1400 years He has enabled His Muslims to achieve a stunning array of achievements.

At the very least, we should see these achievements reflected in the number of Nobel Prizes received by Muslims. The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901 for accomplishments in physics, chemistry, and medicine. Economics was added in 1968. These are what I call the objective prizes. The two subjective prizes are for literature and peace.

Since 1901, 609 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 975 people (prizes are frequently awarded to joint efforts) and Muslims have received – Drum Roll Please – THIRTEEN!! Of those, only three were in the sciences, seven were Peace Prizes, three for literature. None of those were awarded to Saudi Arabians, who have preserved the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for 1400 years and could be considered the best of the best. In fact, not one Saudi has even been nominated for a Nobel.

How does that compare to the Nobels received by the worst of the worst, the Jews? Wikipedia estimates that Jewish recipients were at least 20 percent of "over 900" recipients, and a Jewish organization estimates the number is "at least" 210. To be conservative, and to simplify the math, let's assume that the number is 195, or 20 percent of the 975 recipients.

That would mean that Jews, who are outnumbered by Muslims over one hundred to one, receive 15 times as many Noble Prizes. If my math is correct, that makes Jews FIFTEEN HUNDRED TIMES better than Muslims. If we just count the Nobels won in the sciences since 2000, which doesn't count literature or peace prizes, the Jews outnumber the Muslims by 52 to one. (Fifty-two hundred times better?)

Nobel Prizes are only one criterion to judge "best" people. Music, for example, is an area where the Jewish contribution to America, and the world, is endless, from Gershwin to Billy Joel to Itzhak Perlman. Very few know that both "White Christmas" and "God Bless America were written by a Jew, Russian-born Israel Isidore Beilin, aka Irving Berlin. Since Muhammad declared music to be sinful, the Muslim contribution to music has been zero.

On the other side of the coin, how do the two religions compare in crimes against humanity as opposed to contributions to humanity? Here, there is no question that Muslims are far ahead of Jews. No group of people have been more murderous that the followers of Islam. While it is true that the followers of Karl Marx have caused an impressive amount of mayhem, they were not fellow Jews. The Torah and the Talmud do not command Jews to forever wage war against unbelievers, as the Koran does for Muslims.

I use the word "forever" even though the Muslim holy war, jihad, will cease when Muslims make Islam "prevail over all religions, howsoever those who associate others with Allah in His Divinity might detest it." After 1400 years, Muslims are still only about 23 percent of the world's population, so they continue to soldier on. Last month, February of 2022, Muslims carried out 86 attacks in 20 countries that killed 369 people, at least four of whom were Muslims conducting suicide bombings.

Since the spectacular jihad attack on the Twin Towers in 2001, there have been over 41,000 such attacks. Last year, 2021, "there were 2266 Islamic attacks in 53 countries, in which 11197 people were killed and 9591 injured." I couldn't find the totals since 9/11/2001 on The Religion of Peace website, but those numbers would just reinforce the overwhelming evidence that the only thing Muslims are good at is killing innocent people.

So, let us return to the question: would the world be better off with no Jews or no Muslims? I think the evidence is overwhelming that the Koran got it exactly backwards. It is the Muslims who are the worst of people and the Jews who are the best of people. I think it's time the world recognized those facts.

p.s. A note on my personal bias. When I was a kid, I wanted to play the clarinet like Benny Goodman and had a crush on opera star Roberta Peters, both Jews. Seventy years later, I still want to play like Benny but I've ditched Roberta in favor of Julie Budd. She's Jewish, too.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_Nobel_laureates
https://www.newsweek.com/imams-called-death-jews-trump-jerusalem-announcement-776941
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-nobel-prize-laureates
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2021
Toward Understanding the Qur'an, Sayyid Mawdudi translation, verses 98:6, 98:7, 3:110, 9:33.
Reliance of the Traveller, f40.0, Music, Song, and Dance, pgs. 774-776