Muslim students less likely to be awarded top class degrees.

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As a Muslim, our region is drenched in pure poverty, lack of future, etc. We mainly look forward to an immigration chance to a western country so we live. I don't think academics would be our concern, but how to get work so we gain cash enough for us to survive.

You can see a glimpse of that in the immigrants boarding the death-boats to the borders of Europe, or the Millions of Syrians crossing to Turkey then Europe.

But yes. Rich, well-rest students are of course at an advantage. Only bigots would fail to see due to bigotry and ignoring of facts.

Yes, I think there's no doubt about this at all. Western colonization has worked diligently to keep Muslim regions poor in order to extract the resources cheaply.

It's certain that a great deal of Western antipathy to Islam is manufactured by the media to distract us from our own government's evil policies, and pretend that there is something intrinsically bad about people in those countries. As if their desire to hit us back is due only to irrational religion. 

I read an article a while back about Britain's need for cotton in the 18th century. Most of it came from the American colonies, and the war for independence was fought at least in part for control of the cotton. Instead of shipping it to England to be woven and therefore have most of the value added, the colonies wanted to weave it themselves and derive the whole benefit. When England lost this resource after 1776, they turned to Egyptian cotton and made sure not to repeat the mistake they'd made in North America: they made absolutely sure that Egyptians themselves would never be able to benefit from the profits of the cotton, and to do this required keeping Egyptian education and its economy as primitive as possible. And then of course they blamed the Egyptians for not being an advanced country.

Here is where the useful idiots like Hitchens and Dawkins serve as spokespeople for empire. By blaming religion for what can much more fairly be attributed to their own countries' economic policies, they scapegoat others and exonerate themselves.

Well, you usually meet the Middle Eastern who is self-hating; trying to copy-cat westerners in everything to appear more civil. So many people in here got their self-esteem destroyed for good and instead of it a complex of deification for almost everything westerner settled.
You guessed it right: propaganda's effects in its best form. People here are taught to hate themselves, hate their religion, hate their heritage, hate their history. And any attempt to break through would be met with pointing fingers and news about 9/11 and ISIS -as if that is Islam-. 

The Islamic terrorism scapegoat is being milked over and over to destroy the self-esteem of any Muslim and justify the robbing of natural resources in their lands.

Just like destroying the Egyptian's self-esteem by the British Empire; the same is being repeated over and over.