Religion

The nice thing about Turkey - until recently - was that Ataturk based modern Turkey on modern western principles; including the strict separation of the church, from the state. Until recently, you could not even be admitted into government buildings wearing religious clothes, hats.

That made for a more moderate, tolerable government, than what we see in say, Saudi Arabia; where the head of state just murdered a dissident, and had his body dismembered for smuggling out of an embassy.

So are there better Muslim governments than others?

Or rather? Having read the Koran from start to finish, and having studied Islam in a scholarly way, and having lived in Turkey for a time, I'd say that Turks probably did well, because though nominally religious, they simply ignored their own religion.

But the religion itself, like all religions, is bad. And it was only by ignoring their religion, that Turks - for a while - did so well.

By the way? There isn't room for critical discourse in Christianity especially. Because Christianity's core emphasis on raw "faith," is inherently antagonism to reason, and criticism.