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today's problem on the global scale

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is the coexistence of our occidental renunciation of religion and the societies which have yet to recognize such renunciation

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islam posits as a particular problem because they're our neighbors

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they possess a particular familiarity on our culture

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all the while holding a trauma against the occidental presence

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which poses as a menace against their collective identity

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which led to the resurgence of fundamentalism we see today

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there is approximitely one billion person who abandoned religion

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whilst there is another seven billion person whom, in some sort, are coerced to live with our abandonment of religion

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by the means of cultural products which it has led to

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science, techniques, economic reasoning

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while living in an essencially different culture

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we, to a great extent, can't understand their societies

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those which we named "third world"

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and refer to it today as the "south"

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without understanding the phenomenon of hierarchy

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yes! they are hierarchal socities

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just as how our aristocratic societies

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were during the 17th and 18th century

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wherein the patronage system between superior and his subordinates who depend on him

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is still omnipresent

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westerns have a hard time understanding it

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despite its necessity

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we also have to understand the rest of the world

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based on the history from which we departed

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and it's no easy task

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because it leads to a future rife with conflicts

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are these societies that still haven't detached from religion

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undergoing an anthropological dynamic which will lead them to leave religion

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like us or are they going to remain stagnant

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i believe that it is has in fact embarked on such transition

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amid very conflicitve conditions

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because such change arrived from the west

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this took us... some centuries

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and a history of conflicts

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but we did it internally

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relying on our own means

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whereas they've received the product of our own abandonment of religion

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from the outside

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and they're obliged to adopt it

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some people could tell us:" you are who you are, and we are who we are"

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we're not interested in the manner of your thinking and how you manage

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figure it out on your own

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no! occidental modernity is a proposition that can't be refused

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rather, such change is imposed externally

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leading to a collision with their profoundly inherent cultural and civilizational identitites