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>It is very important to understand that in no case René Guénon envisaged a recovery of the West by its "Islamization". He declared in Orient et Occident (second part, ch. III): “ Never will any Eastern organization establish 'branches' in the West ". The Muslim communities that are developing in the West are the result of globalization and the confusion of traditions. They have, one might say, nothing oriental about them. It is a progressive Islam in perfect harmony with the modern world, copying in this the attitude of the Catholic Church and its popes (a unique case in history, two perfectly legitimate popes live together in the Vatican) or a fundamentalist Islam that is falsely antimodern even more active and dangerous than the fundamentalist Christian currents.

>But it must be declared once again that these "Muslim Guénonians" are completely misguided in asserting that they know and respect the work of René Guénon. Authentic Orientals would find nothing in this work that they do not already know. And then Islam is not the tradition of the West, it is Christianity. As a very last resort, this work may possibly concern Orientals when they have lost their traditional bearings through the effect of a westernization which is now becoming widespread.