Muslim students less likely to be awarded top class degrees.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Jews who are mostly only culturally Jewish (they don't exactly believe in burning bush and flood)

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Because if you have a lot of faith in nonsense from holy books,  you have to spend a lot of mental energy every day to rationalize those nonsensical things in order so that they appear to you as "real" in face of actuall reality, so you don't have enough mental energy left to do the real thinking and learning.

This is a mistake you make all the time. You assume that all religious people are literalist sola scriptura. This is ignorance on your part, and the reason you won't learn otherwise appears to be bigotry. 

There are many religious Jews -- to whom their religion is very important -- who don't read the burning bush and flood as literal historical events. The non-literal reading has a long history, is well known, and people who, unlike you, know what they're talking about have no problem with it.

Likewise educated Muslims don't have to waste time rationalizing myths and wasting their mental energy.

You're the one wasting mental energy by making false and prejudiced assumptions about a huge and diverse group of people.

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It appears that the study was pointing out THAT Muslim students fail to be awarded degrees and not WHY this is the case.

Boru

It appears that some of our fellow posters are happy to ignore that part, and draw whatever conclusion they want. In the case above, that conclusion is his usual "religious people dumb."

That’s not exactly FM’s point, though. He emphasized the difference between secular and non-secular Muslims and Jews. He was addressing people who ‘...have a lot of faith in nonsense from holy books...’ as opposed to making some sort of blanket generalization about all or even most believers. 

And you also appear to be among those who missed the caveat I quoted from the study.

Boru