Alhamdulillah! ALL languages are sign from Allah, as he says in Surah Rum.
And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. Lo! herein indeed are portents for men of knowledge.
But, teaching of languages should not be at the expense of Hadith.
For Islaamic schools Arabic is more than enough.
But, why do the Kamalist Turks want to teach Shakespear (Wali Miya Shaykh Peer LOL)in Islaamic Schools in Pakistan?
It is as ridiculous as asking Engineering Colleges to teach Shakespeare.
Saalam
Well the Turk education movement that is described in the article, does not even have the support of the backing of the Turkish government.
According to the article, it is mainly business owners who support the expansion of Turkic school.
Having western education is not necessarily bad, I've learned much more about Islam after living in USA than I did in my Islamic country.
As a brother stated earlier, "There is only one required Islamic class in school" IMO such class does not really teach much, and the method of teaching is not productive at all.
If the Turkish schools do not harm Islam or Muslims, then I have no problem with it.
That being said.
Philosophy, science, along with Quran and Sunnah should be heavily encouraged in Muslim countries.
Every one should learn Arabic in school,so they will be able to understand and appreciate the Quran without relying on translation and Maolanas and Mullahs (referring to the ones in subcontinent).
Just imagine this, if Muslim countries had a curriculum something similar to the following:
K-8: Strong emphasis on Arabic, religious studies, along with math, science, and english.
8-12, Required classes on Islamic history, culture, etc... (along with the standard math, science, art, etc..)
At the college level, if the universities offered curriculum similar to Al-Azhar University. That way, people have the option to receive a great secular and religious education according to whatever they choose.
I know it sounds wishy/washy, but if Muslim countries followed something along that line, I think illiteracy would be reduced dramatically at the same time we would have a strong educated class endowed with good religious knowledge and also secular education to compete in the workforce (domestically and internationally). Of course, education from k-12 would have to be free.
There is nothing wrong with trying to bring back the Caliphate, but I doubt such things will happen in our life time or our children's life time. I would actually be happy, in fact all Muslims should be happy if the Caliphate was to return.
Sorry if I didn't make any sense, it is really late here and I'm sleepy.
Wasalam,
Shoaib