Can scientific education save us?

Can scientific education save us from political persecution?

Some people think that Indian Muslims are suffering persecution because we are weak in education and knowledge of science.

However, political problems need mainly political solutions. Education and "science" won't help in the face of fascist political movements, history proves this.

Jews in Germany during the rise of Hitler were quite well educated and had many great scientists including Einstein. That didn't stop Hitler from doing what he did. Those scientists had to flee Germany to save their lives.

The book 'Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime' by J.S. Medawar and David Pyke, offers in-depth profiles of the talented Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's rise.

Over 2700 German academics, many of them Jewish, had fled Nazi persecution to Great Britain shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933.

David Stollar writes in his online article 'A Way Out of Germany' , "Before the Nazis seized power in the early months of 1933, Germany was at the forefront of science and medicine, and Jewish scientists and physicians, who contributed prominently to that status, seemed secure in their professional careers and, to a large extent, in their personal lives.

As primary targets of Hitler’s onslaught, however, Jews soon found their world and assumptions turned upside down. By April of that year, nearly all were dismissed from academic and civil service positions."

So this idea that "science can save us" is a very dangerous and oversimplistic assessment of the situation. We need to think of politically sound strategies inspired by the Last Revelation, the seerah and our rich history.