“Numbers cannot define the quality of education,” said a renowned professor regarding the quality of education of Bangladesh. If numbers did define how good the education system was, Bangladesh is actually doing a phenomenal job. What used to be under 100 students receiving a GPA of 5 only a decade ago has risen to almost a hundred thousand.

After the fall of the Taliban regime, the United States tried to claim that the educational system in Afghanistan has grown rapidly. They see the construction and rebuilding of some schools and the possibility of school attendance for a percentage of girls as their greatest success since the colonialisation. But a short overview of the Education System in the war-torn country shows that this so-called progress is only an illusion.

We can hear a lot about the horrible Russian crimes against Muslims, which it commits outside its own territory. But do we in the Arab world have a clear view on how our brothers and sisters live in Russia, because there are more than 20 million of them?

The problems caused by the secular education system within Muslim lands are very similar. Despite this, Turkey's secular education policy has succeeded to become a 'role-model' in the field of education in a number of Muslim countries. Unfortunately however, the failure in Turkey’s education policy has been certified through international studies.