WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity’s scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections.
“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don’t produce science,” Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. “They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”
Arabs have won the Nobel Prize
__Egyptian law scholar Mohamed El Baradei, a diplomat and vice-president of Egypt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency. Baradei and the IAEA, which he previously chaired, were awarded for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes.
__Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist, was a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni and the first Arab woman to win the award.
__Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian-American scientist, was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
__Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
__Jordanian-born Omar M. Yaghi was one of three chemists awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025, and won the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
__Sir Michael Atiyah, of Lebanese descent, was a Fields medalist in 1966.
Arab scholars were preserving the works of the Greco-Roman world that “The West” loves to claim to be heir to while “The West” was busily beating each other over the head repeatedly.
There’s 500 million Arabs in the world
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
the 1999 Nobel Prize
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
the Nobel Prize in 2025, and won the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
was a Fields medalist in 1966.
Please don’t use multiculturalist socialist environmentalist liberal asian communist globalist woke unpatriotic Arabic numerals. Use Roman numerals instead, just like god intended. “What about Hebrew numerals?”, you may say. To that, I answer: “Why should we be forced to use such Semitic glyphs in our writings?”
I shall now do you the kindness of fixing this glaring error:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity’s scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn criticism just days before midterm elections.
“There’s D million Arabs in the world and yet they don’t produce science,” Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. “They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”
Arabs have won the Nobel Prize
__Egyptian law scholar Mohamed El Baradei, a diplomat and vice-president of Egypt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in MMV alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency. Baradei and the IAEA, which he previously chaired, were awarded for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes.
__Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist, was a co-recipient of the MMXI Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni and the first Arab woman to win the award.
__Ahmed Zewail, an Egyptian-American scientist, was awarded the MCMXCIX Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
__Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in MCMLXXXVIII.
__Jordanian-born Omar M. Yaghi was one of three chemists awarded the Nobel Prize in MMXXV, and won the MMXVIII Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
__Sir Michael Atiyah, of Lebanese descent, was a Fields medalist in MCMDCVI.
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