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packman

(16,296 posts) Thu Oct 16, 2014, 01:10 PM Oct 2014

Peace Prizes and Muslims

Here's a quick stat to throw at someone who claims all Muslims are war mongering fanatics--

"As of 2014, eleven Nobel Prize winners have been Muslims. More than half of the eleven Muslim Nobel laureates were awarded the prize in the 21st century. Seven of the eleven winners have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,"

and if you count our Muslim president, it would be 12 Nobel Prize winners