UN Survey: Arabs Read Approximately 4 Pages Per Year

by Kal El on December 9, 2008 · Comments

Not very surprising, considering that about 79% of muslims are illiterate. It stands to reason the land of the birth of islam would be worse off.

(IsraelNN.com) The average Arab in the Middle East reads approximately four pages worth of literature a year, according to a RIA Novosti Russian news service report published in November.

The Syrian newspaper Tishreen, commenting on a recent survey conducted by the United Nations, said that according to the study, Americans read an average of 11 books a year, with the average Briton reading eight books.

The Arab Thought Foundation, which reports on cultural development in Arab countries, concluded that only a little more than 8 percent of Arabs aspire to a higher education.

The U.N. survey reported that every year, one new book title is published per 12,000 people in the Arab world, as compared with one per 500 people in Britain. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) says Israel publishes more than 4,000 books a year, making Israel the second highest per-capita publisher in the world, after the People’s Republic of China.

The United Nations Development Programme Literacy Report for 2007-2008 listed Israel in 56th place for world literacy, with the Palestinian Authority coming in 80th, Jordan 84th, Lebanon 97th, Iran 114th, Syria 120th, and Egypt in 132nd place.

I am a bit surprised that the UN would actually be honest and release something like this that might offend muslims to the public. But then, most of them won’t be able to read it anyway, and there are no cartoons to incite them to riot.

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  • The "Arab Thought Foundation"?? hahaha
    4 pages per year and that's an average! I guess when you're main objective is to kill and terrorize, you don't really need to develop your vocabulary.
  • ender
    it was released by an arab at the UN, he just didn't or couldn't read it.
    if they can't read, how do we know they can count to 4 to know how many pages they read.
    no wonder they are so easily duped in to their death cult of stupidity.
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