**September 22, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Baker, Gerard. \"Confronted By The Islamist Threat On All Sides, Europe
Pathetically Caves In.\" The Times (London), 22 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-369375,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-369375,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"I actually heard a senior member of the British Government
chide the Pope this week for what he described as his unhelpful
comments. This minister went on to say that the Pope should keep quiet
about Islamic violence because of the Crusades. It was a jaw-dropping
observation. If it was meant seriously its import is that, because of
violence perpetrated in the name of Christ 900 years ago, today\'s
Church, and presumably today\'s European governments (who, after all,
were eager participants in the Crusades) should forever hold their peace
on the subject of religious fanaticism. In this view the Church\'s
repeated apologies for the sins committed in its name apparently are not
enough. The Pope has no right, even in a lengthy disquisition on the
complexities of faith and reason, to say anything about the religious
role in Islamic terrorism.\"\]

Bostom, Andrew G. \"An Ancient Muslim Rage Is On Display Again.\" The
American Thinker, September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5878]{.underline}](http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5878)

\[Excerpt: \"There is no reason for surprise at the vehemence and
violence of Islamic rage at the Pope\'s recent remarks. Islam recognizes
no freedom of speech, nor even any freedom of conscience. Infidels
should know better. The lessons of history are clear. As always, we
ignore them at our peril\.... The ultimate source of the convulsive
reaction to the Pope\'s speech is the Islamic belief that spiritually
and physically debauched infidels have no right to express
opinions-least of all negative opinions-regarding Islam\'s sacred text,
the Koran, the Muslim prophet, Muhammad\...or the sacred Islamic Law
(Shari\'a), which includes the permanent institution of jihad war\....
The global Muslim reactions to both the Danish cartoons and the Pope\'s
Regensburg lecture manifest\...motifs of dehumanizing infidel hatred,
replete with the collective punishment of non-Muslim societies and
religious institutions for their modern \'blasphemies\'.\"\]

El-Kikhia, Mansour. \"When Is This Open Season On Islam And Muslims Gong
To End?\" San Antonio Express News, September 21, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA092106.2O.mansour.202a5e9.html]{.underline}](http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA092106.2O.mansour.202a5e9.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The faith is vilified\...to a large number of conservative
Americans and, by extension, the Bush administration, Islam has come to
represent a threat more potent than communism\.... the primary goal was
to fill the vacuum created by the demise of the Soviet Union and the
bipolar system with a new enemy. Islam fits the bill, and as far as
conservative and evangelical Americans are concerned, it is a big enough
ideology to rival any threat posed to their beliefs by communism. There
is no Islamic entity to pose a threat to the United States comparable to
the Soviet Union; hence one had to be created. First, it was al-Qaida,
but it soon became apparent that it was too small to make a viable
opponent, resulting in the attempted links to Iraq and Iran that proved
to be false. The genesis of this argument can be found in a slew of
academic publications throughout the \'90s, beginning with \'The Clash
of Civilizations,\' by Samuel Huntington\...his work did serve as a base
for the Bush administration\'s ideological planning.\'\.... Benedict
should have repudiated the actions of the Bush administration for
bringing the world closer to calamity by instigating a global religious
and cultural war - not add fuel to the fire that is liable to burn us
all.\"\]

Henninger, Daniel. \"Hosni Mubarak Should Call Benedict XVI.\" Wall
Street Journal, 22 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115888764699170834.html?mod=opinion_columns_featured_lsc]{.underline}](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115888764699170834.html?mod=opinion_columns_featured_lsc)

\[Excerpt: \"It is being widely said, mainly among his expectable
Western critics, that the quotation from Manuel II Paleologus was a
\"mistake.\" Really? I\'d say Benedict is right about where he hoped to
be after Regensburg: The whole world saying that a serious conversation
between the pope and Islam is necessary. My guess is Benedict would
clear his calendar if the Muslim Arab leadership said it is ready to
talk. And the talk won\'t be about who meant what in the 14th century.
It will be about the here and now. The pope has a Muslim problem
alright\.... Call it religious cleansing. It is a political strategy
that would eventually give Iran, Iraq, Egypt and the Holy Lands of
Palestine a cultural homogeneity that has never existed in human
history, before or after Christ\.... The Middle East is being purged of
a historically enriching diversity that will surely kill its ability to
thrive. What will remain is a homogenous, self-proclaimed threat to the
rest of the world.\"\]

Krauthammer, Charles. \"Tolerance: A Two-Way Street.\" Jewish World
Review, September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer092206.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer092206.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the inconvenient truth is that after centuries of
religious wars, Christendom long ago gave it up. It is a simple and
undeniable fact that the violent purveyors of monotheistic religion
today are self-proclaimed warriors for Islam who shout \'G-d is great\'
as they slit the throats of infidels - such as those of the flight crews
on Sept. 11, 2001 - and are then celebrated as heroes and martyrs.\"\]

Malzahn, Claus Christian. \"Rushdie, Hirsi Ale, the Pope - Who\'s
Next?\" Der Spiegel, September 18, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,437684,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,437684,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The often violent protests that erupted in the Muslim world
in the wake of the cartoon controversy have often been manipulated and
fuelled by Islamists. The bile currently being flung at the pope is no
different. But the attacks against the pope are especially grotesque.
The severe criticism \-- often coupled with threats of violence \--
directed at the speech held last Tuesday by Benedict XVI is not just an
attack on the head of the Catholic Church. The malicious twisting of the
pope\'s words and the absurd allegations made by representatives of
Islam represent a frontal attack on open religious and philosophical
dialogue. That so many in the Muslim world joined the protests against
the pope merely show just how influential Islamist extremist groups have
become. The political goal of the Islamists is clear: any dispute
between Christianity and Islam must obey the rules handed down by
political Islamism.\"\]

Murawiec, Laurent. \"The Wisdom of Benedict XVI, 1391 and 2006.\"
National Review, 21Sep2006. At:
[[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzhlN2Q2OWUzMDljMmUxYjEwZjkwMmQ0YmFlZTQzNjg=]{.underline}](http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzhlN2Q2OWUzMDljMmUxYjEwZjkwMmQ0YmFlZTQzNjg=)

\[Excerpt: \"That dialogue occurred in year 1391. There is a context,
which only ignoramuses could suspect the pope of not having taken into
full account\.... The Muslim jihad was threatening the whole of
Christendom, and was devastating Muslim lands as well\.... Jihad is the
pathology of religion just as Nazism and Bolshevism were the pathologies
of reason and modernity. The irrational nihilism of modern jihad is what
produces the torrents of blood spilled by the jihadis throughout the
world. \"We love death more than you love life,\" they proudly proclaim.
In promoting a culture of life, of faith and reason, the pope is boldly
taking the moral and intellectual leadership that has been sorely
missing in our response to the war declared on us on September 11.\"\]

Peters, Ralph. \"Cradle Of Hate: Islam\'s Middle East Problem.\" New
York Post, 15 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/cradle_of_hate_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm]{.underline}](http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/cradle_of_hate_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"What should amaze us isn\'t the terrorists\' strength,
which has limits, but the comprehensive failure of Middle Eastern
civilization. Given all the wealth that\'s poured into the region, its
vast human resources and all of its opportunities for change, the mess
the Middle East has made of itself is stunning\.... Culturally, the
region is utterly noncompetitive. Societies stagnate as populations
seethe. To the extent it exists, development benefits the wealthy and
powerful. The common people are either ignored or miserably oppressed -
and not just the women\.... The Middle East\'s failure on every front
enabled the rise of the terrorists - as well as the empowerment of other
religious extremists, secular dictators and political parties willing to
poison electorates with hatred. The popular culprit for the mess is
Islam. And there can be no doubt that the faith\'s local degeneration
has been catastrophic for the region. By far the most numerous victims
of \'Islam Gone Wild\' have been Middle Eastern Muslims\.... Many of the
social, governmental and psychological structures at the core of Middle
Eastern societies pre-date Islam. Authoritarian government; a slave-like
status for women; pervasive corruption; labor viewed as an evil to be
avoided; the relegation of learning to narrow castes; economies that
rely on trade rather than productivity to generate wealth, even the
grandiose rhetoric - all were in place long before Islam appeared. The
repeated failures we\'ve witnessed go far beyond a religion on its
sickbed. Instead of Islam being the Middle East\'s problem, what if
Islam\'s problem is the Middle East?\... We changed, they froze. An
Assyrian tyrant, such as the murderous Ashurbanipal - who reigned over
1,200 years before Mohammed\'s birth -would understand the governments,
societies and disciplinarian religion of today\'s Middle East. The West
would baffle him.\"\]

Varadarajan, Tunku. \"La Fallaci: A Prophet of Decline Passes From The
Scene.\" Wall Street Journal, 16 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110008955]{.underline}](http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110008955)

\[Excerpt: \"La Fallaci,\"\...became in her last years a fierce, even
apocalyptic, critic of Islam. She feared the unassimilated\--and, she
believed, unassimilable\--Muslim immigrants in the West, and she feared
them to distraction. Above all, she despised Europe\'s political and
cultural elites who were responsible\--in her view\--for turning Europe
into \'a colony of Islam\'. In a Spenglerian interview for this page
last June, she told me: \'The moment you give up your principles, and
your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those
values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead.
Period\'.\"\]

Wensierski, Peter. \"\`Islam is a Different Culture\' - Spiegel
Interview With Cardinal Walter Kasper.\" Der Spiegel, 18 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,437587,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,437587,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout
European history, which is what the pope was pointing out. The encounter
with Islam now seems to be entering a new phase. Many have called it a
\'clash of civilizations.\'\.... So far, it {Islam} has only been
tolerant in places where it is in the minority. Where it is the majority
religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we
understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn\'t mean that
it\'s an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect
with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious
freedom, human rights and equal rights for women. These shortcomings are
one reason so many Muslims feel such frustration that often turns into
hatred and violence against the West, which is despised as being godless
and decadent. Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing
left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for
desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.\"\]

\(2\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Dow Jones Newswires. \"Private Sector Urged To Help To Tackle Global
Warming.\" Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2006. At:
[[http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20060921-713012.html]{.underline}](http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20060921-713012.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Swiss Re (RUKN.VX) chief executive Jacques Aigrain told the
meeting that climate change is having huge effects on the re-insurance
business, which he called \'the final payer for these events or
consequences,\' such as Hurricane Katrina. Referring to hurricanes and
some other natural disasters, he said that \'climate change is not the
only reason for them, but it adds to the probability
substantially\'.\"\]

\(3\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Congressional Research Service (Genevieve J. Knezo). Homeland Security
Research and Development Funding, Organization, and Oversight. CRS
Report for Congress RS21270), August 22, 2006, 6 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS21270.pdf]{.underline}](http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS21270.pdf)

Lipton, Eric. \"Deal Is Reached on Plants and Terrorism,\" September 21,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/washington/22chemical.html?ref=washington]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/washington/22chemical.html?ref=washington)

\(4\) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY \-- PROPOSED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
PROTECTION PROGRAM, FACULTY SEARCH:

Received today from Dr. Michael Maurer, Department of Applied
Psychology, Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, a
description of his proposed Bachelor of Science Degree in Critical
Infrastructure Protection at NYU \-- to be offered, if approved, out of
the NYU School for Continuing and Professional Studies. Dr. Maurer
anticipants approval and a Fall 2007 \"roll-out\" of the new program.
Students would be able to choose from amongst four Concentrations within
this program:

\* Homeland Security

\* Strategic Intelligence

\* Emergency Management

\* Business Continuity

Dr. Maurer notes that he is \"accepting CVs for perspective online
faculty\" \-- At: <mm152@nyu.edu>

\(5\) PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE:

Weintraub, Daniel. \"California\'s Disaster Preparations Nowhere Near
Adequate, Audit Finds,\" San Jose Mercury News (CA), September 22, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/15581271.htm]{.underline}](http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/15581271.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"No matter where they are on the political spectrum, just
about everybody agrees that the first and most important role of
government is to protect public safety. But a recent audit has concluded
that the state government is falling short in one of its most
fundamental tasks: planning and preparing for a natural disaster or a
terrorist strike.\"\]

\(6\) WAR ON TERROR:

Dunn, JR. \"Clausewitz On Terror.\" The American Thinker, September 14,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/clausewitz_on_terror.html]{.underline}](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/clausewitz_on_terror.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Are we losing the War on Terror? Five years after 9/11, the
question is being asked with some urgency, and not by appeasers,
defeatists, or the general run of whiner, but by individuals of respect,
people of considerable expertise and experience, people deserving of
close attention under any circumstance. They have come to believe that
at worst, the war is being lost, and at best, the war effort is losing
steam, that we\'ve begun to cede the initiative to the Jihadis, an error
that may cost us a terribly high price not far down the line.\"\]

\(7\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AFGHANISTAN:

Tyson, Ann Scott. \"Taliban\'s Gains Forestall U.S. Troop Reductions in
Afghanistan.\" Washington Post, September 22, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101249_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101249_pf.html)

\(8\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AL QAEDA:

The Nation (Pakistan). \"Musharraf Cool To Bush\'s Intent On Hunting
Osama.\" September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2006/22/index16.php]{.underline}](http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2006/22/index16.php)

\[Excerpt: \"President Pervez Musharraf Wednesday gave a cool reception
to President George W. Bush\'s statement that he (Bush) would not
hesitate to go after and kill Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda
associates even if it meant hunting them down on Pakistani soil. \'We
will like to do that on our own\'\.... Pakistan, President Musharraf
said, would not welcome its sovereign territory breached by the United
States-even in the pursuit of Osama bin Laden his associates\....
Musharraf also angrily rejected Afghan charges that Pakistan was not
doing enough against the Taliban, saying that Kabul should be doing more
to stamp out the militant threat.\' We are already doing a lot,\' the
President said. \'They (Afghans) need to be doing more in Afghanistan,\'
he said\.... Regarding the Pope\'s recent remarks about Islam, he said
they were \'absolutely irresponsible\'. Nobody had the right to hurt the
feelings of millions of people, especially in the current critical and
sensitive times. The Pope should apologize for what he had said and not
for the turmoil it had created.\"\]

Wright, Lawrence. \"The Trials of the Century.\" New York Times,
September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/opinion/22wright.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/opinion/22wright.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Osama bin Laden is arguably the most famous man alive, and
his name will resound through history. If we do have the good fortune of
actually capturing him, the manner in which we bring him to justice will
make a critical difference in the way in which his legacy will unfold.
Here is my scenario for how this movie could end. First, don\'t kill
him. He\'d become a martyr instantly, which is of course his goal. His
death at the hands of Americans would be the ideal finale from a Qaeda
perspective. Deny him that victory at all costs. And, please, don\'t
send him to Guantánamo or torture him in an undisclosed location. That
route leads to his becoming a symbol of resistance to the erosion of the
American legal system. The world will want to know what happens to him,
and if he is hidden away, or subjected to a secret trial, then his
reputation will soar as ours plummets. He has to be accorded the
civilized treatment that he and his movement would never offer their
enemies\.... We should, instead, offer him to the authorities in Kenya,
where, on Aug. 7, 1998, a Qaeda suicide bomber murdered 213 people in
the attack on the American Embassy\.... Then take him to Tanzania, where
on the same August morning Al Qaeda hit another American Embassy,
killing 11 people, most of them Muslims\.... Thus exposed as a mass
murderer of Africans who had no part in his quarrel with America, Mr.
bin Laden would be ready to stand trial for the bombing of the American
destroyer Cole and, of course, 9/11. By treating him as a criminal
defendant instead of a enemy combatant, we could underline the
differences between a civil society and the Taliban-like rule he seeks
to impose on Muslim countries and eventually the entire world.\"\]

\(9\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Przybyla, Heidi and Albert R. Hunt. \"Clinton Says Iraq \'Hasn\'t
Helped\' War on Terror.\" Bloomberg, 21 Sep 2006.
[[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=af7.\_u1OwZk8&refer=us#]{.underline}](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=af7._u1OwZk8&refer=us)

\(10\) WAR ON TERROR \-- PAKISTAN:

Associated Press. \"U.S. Threatened to Bomb Pakistan, Musharraf Says.\"
September 22, 2006. At:
[[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mush22sep22,0,5981412,print.story]{.underline}](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mush22sep22,0,5981412,print.story)

\[Excerpt: \"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said the U.S.
threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age if he did not
assist the administration\'s war on terrorism. The threat was delivered
after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by Richard L. Armitage, then deputy
secretary of State, to Musharraf\'s intelligence director, the Pakistani
leader told CBS\' \'60 Minutes\' for Sunday\'s broadcast. Musharraf said
the intelligence chief quoted Armitage as saying, \'Be prepared to be
bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.\'\.... Armitage told
CNN on Thursday that he never threatened to bomb Pakistan, wouldn\'t say
such a thing and didn\'t have the authority to do it.\"\]

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR \-- SOMALIA?:

Sanders, Edmund. \"In Somalia, A Boot Camp for Islam.\" Los Angeles
Times, 22 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-camps22sep22,0,4382038.story?track=tottext]{.underline}](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-camps22sep22,0,4382038.story?track=tottext)

\[Excerpt: \"Nur is one of about 3,000 former warlord militiamen sent to
Islamist-run \"rehabilitation camps\" on the outskirts of the nation\'s
capital. It\'s an ambitious resocialization program designed to wean the
young fighters off drugs, instill religious values and, eventually,
reverse loyalties so they can be integrated into the Muslim
fundamentalist forces\.... In Washington, there is concern that
increasingly Islamist Somalia could end up with a Taliban-style
government and serve as a terrorist training area.\"\]

\(12\) WAR ON TERROR \-- SYRIA AND IRAN?:

Vallely, Major General Paul (U.S. Army, ret.). \"The U.S. Versus Syria
and Iran: Winning the War on Terror.\" Jerusalem Issue Brief (Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs), Vol. 4, No. 23, May 23, 2005. Accessed at:
[[http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief004-23.htm]{.underline}](http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief004-23.htm)

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