Therefore, despite errors in detail, concerning for example China, the analysis made in 1924 by René Guénon (himself a Muslim) in Orient et Occident, according to which the West would only have, from that moment on, continues to be valid. paths to choose: the reconquest of Christian tradition; the descent into barbarism and endless ethnic conflicts; and general islamization. Those who intend to defend the West on the basis of secularism or atheism only contribute to strengthening the second alternative, before which the third may emerge, sooner or later, even as a humanitarian alternative. “Secular civilization” is not a promise of life: it is the agony of a declining humanity that, a minute before death, will end up asking Islam for help.