[Jang Group-Pakistan] Farrukh Saleem - Of the 330 million Muslims living under Arab rulers, a mere 486,530 live in a democracy. The only "parliamentary democracy" in the region with universal suffrage, multi-party, multi-candidate, competitive elections is Israel. Knowledge makes Israel grow by 5% a year, while "rates of productivity" in Arab countries are negative. Israel now has six universities ranked as among the best on the planet, while the 22-member Arab League does not have a single university in the top 400. In the Arab world, one in two women can neither read nor write. Roughly 23% of Arab engineers and 50% of Arab doctors emigrate.
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