Richard Dawkins, Mala Yusufzai and the Nobel Peace prize.
I am posting this a good few months late, but better late than never eh?
A few months ago there was a twitterstorm after Richard Dawkins made the following tweet:
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
Naturally many people jumped up in outrage at this. Others jumped up agreeing with him.
Most debate was about how current political situation impacts on the nobel prizes being given out. Not much was on how they are given out.
Muslim woman among one of three women to recieve Nobel peace prize in 2011
Three women have been jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their non-violent struggles for women's rights. Here are profiles of the three: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee - an activist from Liberia, and Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni rights activist.
Read more @ BBC News
Good ol' Obama and his Nobel Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 went to Barack Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
US President Barack Obama has said he was "surprised and deeply humbled" to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, less than 10 months into his presidency.
Speaking at the White House hours after the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee named him as a surprise winner, he said the award should be a "call to action".
The world faced challenges that "cannot be met by one person or by one nation alone," Mr Obama said.
The committee said he won for efforts to boost diplomacy and co-operation.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the Norwegian committee said in a statement.
"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."
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He said he did not feel he deserved to be in the company of some of the "transformative figures" who had previously received the award.
Some of his aims, particularly the goal of universal nuclear disarmament, would be difficult to achieve even within his lifetime, let alone his presidency, Mr Obama said.
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In the US the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, asked a simple question: "What has President Obama actually accomplished?"
Attributing Mr Obama's win to his "star power", Mr Steele said it was "unfortunate" he "outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights".
Iran's foreign minister said the decision to give the award was taken too "hastily".
Nobel prize win 'humbles' Obama
Past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize: Ken Oprann in 2008, Al Gore (2007), Muhammad Yunus (2006)...
Did Obama deserve the Prize?