today's problem on the global scale

is the coexistence of our occidental renunciation of religion

and the societies which have yet to recognize such renunciation

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

they possess a particular familiarity on our culture

all the while holding a trauma against the occidental presence

which poses as a menace against their collective identity

which led to the resurgence of fundamentalism we see today

there is approximitely one billion person who abandoned religion

whilst there is another seven billion person whom

in some sort, are coerced to live with our abandonment of religion

by the means of cultural products which it has led to

science, techniques, economic reasoning

while living in an essencially different culture

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

those which we named "third world"

and refer to it today as the "south"

without understanding

the phenomenon of hierarchy

yes! they are hierarchal socities

just as how our aristocratic societies

were during the 17th and 18th century

whereby the patronage system

between the superior and his subordinates who depend on him

is still omnipresent

westerns have a hard time understanding it

despite its necessity

we also have to understand the rest of the world

based on the history from which we departed

and it's no easy task

because it leads to a future rife with conflicts

are these societies that still haven't detached from religion

also undergoing an anthropological dynamic

which will lead them to leave religion

like us or are they going to remain stagnant

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

amid very conflicitve conditions

because such change reached it from the outside

this took us... some centuries

and a history of conflicts

but we did it internally

relying on our own means

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

from the outside

and they're obliged to adopt it

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

we're not interested in the manner of your thinking

and how you manage

figure it out on your own

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

rather, such change is imposed externally

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

in other words, it suggests another process of leaving religion

a very difficult one

more difficult than the one we underwent

some societies appear to have prevailed in doing so

until this very moment

take for example : japan

an extraordinary case

an ultra-modern society

economically and scientifically

at the same time, extremely traditional

where apparently, buddhist and shinto religiosity will remain alive

so there has been a japanese miracle where it hasn't taken a dramatic turn

unlike for many socities, particularly muslim ones, the process proves to be very dramatic