“God is dead” was not a metaphysical pronouncement: Nietzsche was simply saying that fundamentally, Europe did not believe in the inherited and established religion anymore. The entire socio-political order was reconciled to the spiritual needs and customs of the people through a false mechanism, no longer functional, like using superglue in lieu of proper construction materials for a joint in the hardware. This situation, he claimed, quite presciently, even prophetically, could not be sustainable, and would eventually yield a new birth of savagery. Islam is a different civilization than Europe, and Nietzsche was concerned primarily with the development and fate of Europe, ‘the West’, but I seem to recall him calling the Semites “strong races” in the W2P notebooks and further noting, as have others then and since, that, in specific contrast, the Islamic world did on the whole still believe; which did not particularly endear it to him though either, because he saw it as similarly dependent on the “morality” endemic to Levantine monotheism. The unique situation of the “Last Man,” that followed the survival of “morality” amid the discontinuity of belief in the superstructure that it supports, was a European problem, and it was Europe that had conquered the world not only politically and militarily but spiritually as well. Non-European societies had the exigent realities of dealing with this rapidly consolidating New World Order foisted upon them; and despite often agonizing clashes with the ancestral religion, the key, fatal premise had still been forcibly admitted.