Unfortunately, that is exactly the situation we find ourselves in. Western civilization currently is determined to go down a suicidal path. The same cast of characters is ready to step into the vacuum.
What has Islam ever actually done to lift mankind out of poverty and suffering? Even in the 60s when I went to school they were trying to teach us that Muslims came up with modern mathematics. This of course was not completely factual. They more or less stole mathematical ideas from societies they invaded and infiltrated. For whatever reason... even back in the 60s our educational system was trying to advance other cultures and give them credit for all sorts of stuff.
A couple centuries from now if Western civilization somehow comes back from the brink... school kids will probably learn how Muslims were the ones who developed the first iPhones.