Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil View Post
Ironically, you're wrong. Turkey is an example of extremely secular muslim country. Women can't wear headscarves in the university in Turkey (while they sadly can in France).
That being said, in the 50's and 60's, many arab countries tried to establish secular society (more or less based on the french and turkish model). Pretty much all of them failed and made a U-turn during the 70's.
I addressed this, Turkey's Secularism rests on a knife edge, and Islam is still favoured. Also, Turkish Secularism is also linked to extreme nationalism, much more so than in France.