2014 Nobel Peace Prize winners

Fall is in the air.  I can feel it from the chill in the air, the smell of burning leaves, and my Twitter account going aflutter with the hashtag #NobelPeacePrize.

Yeah, I'm a geek that way, I like seeing what I'll be reading next.

This year, however, there seems to be an extra buzz as people are realizing that yet another Muslim has won!

And while a major news network is telling our fellow Americans that Islam is "one big bad idea," the rest of the world is awarding members of it the Peace prize.

As a matter of fact, eleven Nobel Prize winners have been Muslims, seven in the Peace category.

For the first time in days there was some Muslim news that doesn't involve beheadings, bombings, or complaints about pumpkin spice in our hummus!

I'd like to present you with these eleven Muslims here for your educational enjoyment.

Peace
1978
Anwar al-Sadat
Egypt

1994
Yasser Arafat
Palestine

2003
Shirin Ebadi
Iran

2005
Mohamed El Baradei
Egypt

2006
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladesh

2011
Tawakel Karman
Yemen

2014
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistan

Literature
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt

2006
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey

Physics
1979
Abdus Salam
Pakistan

Chemistry
1999
Ahmed Zewail
Egypt