today's problem on a global scale is the coexistence between 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 of our culture all the while holding a trauma against the occidental presence which poses as a menace against 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 forced 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 a primarily different culture which 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