**September 25, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Johnston, Philip. \"The Shadow Cast By a Mega-Mosque.\" Telegraph (UK),

25 Sept. 2006. At:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=O1C2HU2ITIIRTQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/09/25/do2502.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/09/25/ixopinion.html>

\[Excerpt: \"When Abu Izzadeen, the firebrand Islamist militant, berated
John Reid (Home Office Secretary) last week for \'daring\' to visit a
Muslim area, the Home Secretary bridled, as did many others, at his
suggestion that part of London was off limits for a British minister of
the Crown. There was nowhere in this country from which anyone should be
excluded, Mr Reid said; nowhere that could be called exclusively Muslim.
He was speaking just a couple of Tube stops from\...the site for the
2012 Olympic stadium, where a huge row is about to erupt over plans to
construct a mosque\....the largest place of worship in Europe, a
gigantic three-storey Islamic centre, with schools and other facilities,
able to hold at least 40,000 worshippers and up to 70,000 if
necessary.\"\]

Nandy, Pritish. \"Euphemisms in Troubled Times.\" Times of India,
September 24, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1837361.cms]{.underline}](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1837361.cms)

\[Excerpt: \"\...even the most secular among us recognize that a new
brotherhood of Islam is growing so rapidly-cutting across nations,
cultures, financial communities-that very soon the world will be split
between those who live by Islam and those who don\'t.\"\]

Thornhill, John. \"The Reality of Islam and the {French} Republic.\"
Financial Times (UK), September 24, 2006. At:

[[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/73186a68-4bf6-11db-90d2-0000779e2340.html]{.underline}](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/73186a68-4bf6-11db-90d2-0000779e2340.html)

\[Excerpt: \"A standard riff is developing among the rightwing
commentariat in the US when discussing Europe\'s 15m Muslims: they are
the potential enemy. Largely marginalized in low-growth economies,
culturally adrift in secular, permissive societies, cut off from their
families\' roots in North Africa, many of these Muslims are poor, angry,
disorientated and prey to radicalization by al-Qaeda extremists. The
\"intifada\" launched by rioting Muslim youths in France\'s suburbs last
November and the murderous bombing campaign conducted by \"home-grown\"
terrorists in London last July are just a foretaste of things to
come.\"\]

\(2\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? - POPE & ISLAM:

Associated Press, \"Report: Barroso Says EU Leaders Failed To Support
the Pope Over Islam Speech.\" September 24, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/24/europe/EU_GEN_Germany_EU_Pope.php>

\[Excerpt: \"The president of the European Commission expressed
disappointment that European leaders failed to defend Pope Benedict XVI
over his recent remarks about Islam, in comments published Sunday. Jose
Manuel Barroso said that while Europe must take the threat of Islamic
extremists \'very seriously\', it must not confuse tolerance with \'a
form of political correctness\' that puts others\' values above its
own.\"\]

Gandolfo, Castel. \"Pope Meets Muslim Diplomats.\" CBS News, September
25, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/25/world/main2036867.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/25/world/main2036867.shtml)

Heneghan, Tom. \"Turkish Intellectuals Want to Know More on Pope\'s View
of Islam.\" Turkish Daily News, September 24, 2006. At:

[[http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54829]{.underline}](http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54829)

Lagadec, Erwan. \"Why Quote A Byzantine Emperor?\" International Herald
Tribune, September 24, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/24/opinion/edlag.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/24/opinion/edlag.php)

\[Excerpt: \"\...he {Pope Benedict XVI} opened a window into his own
perception of Islam, one that is under the shadow of a siege mentality -
a siege that the Vatican believes it is losing.\"\]

May, Clifford D. \"Submit or Die.\" Scripps Howard, September 20, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=404313&attrib_id=7374>

\[Excerpt: \"Many commentators are missing the point: These protestors -
and those who incite them \-- are not asking for mutual respect and
equality. They are not saying: \'It\'s wrong to speak ill of a
religion\'. They are saying: \'It\'s wrong to speak ill of our
religion.\' They are not standing up for a principle. They are laying
down the law. They are making it as clear as they can that they will not
tolerate \'infidels\' criticizing Muslims. They also are making it clear
that infidels should expect criticism - and much worse - from Muslims.
They are attempting nothing less than the establishment of a new world
order in which the supremacy of what they call the Nation of Islam is
acknowledged, and \'unbelievers\' submit - or die. Call it an offer you
can\'t refuse.\"\]

Pham, Peter. \"What We Can Learn From A Medieval Dialogue.\" Family
Security Matters, September 21, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php?id=282702]{.underline}](http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php?id=282702)

\[Excerpt: \"If anything, we should all regret that \'political
correctness\' in the West and self-censorship in many Muslim communities
means that the pontiff is unlikely to have many take him up on his
generous invitation to frank dialogue, leaving us all in many respects
worse off than the Byzantine emperor and his Persian friend\.... There
is no record in the Dialogues or in any of the other contemporary
sources we have of the period of the qadi (or anyone else for that

matter) organizing street protests-much less attacks on churches or the
murder of nuns-in response to the emperor\'s brusque comments about the
prophet of Islam and his legacy. Rather, true to his calling as a
learned man, the Islamic jurist answered the emperor point-by-point and
was willing to pursue the conversation further.\"\]

Sun2Surf (Malaysia). \"Abdullah Calls For Sincere Dialogue.\" September
21, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=15557]{.underline}](http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=15557)

\[Excerpt: \"Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday
(Sept 20, 2006), the prime minister, who is also chairman of the
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said Islam was not the
source of intolerance between peoples of different faiths, and urged for
the demonisation of Islam to be stopped and Islamophobia removed.\"\]

\(3\) GLOBAL WARMING:

McGuire, Bill. Dangerous Climate Change: Rising Sea-Levels and Ocean
Circulation Changes. Benfield Hazard Research Centre (UK), 2006, 24
pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.benfieldhrc.org/activities/issues5/dcc.htm]{.underline}](http://www.benfieldhrc.org/activities/issues5/dcc.htm)

\(4\) HAZARDS AND RISK:

Lloyd\'s. 360 Risk Project. Homepage:

[[http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/360_risk_project/]{.underline}](http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/360_risk_project/)

\[About this project from the website: \"The aim of the Lloyd\'s 360
Risk Project is to generate discussion and debate on how to manage risk
in today\'s environment. This is a major issue - and one that will not
be addressed easily or quickly. That is why the Lloyd\'s 360 Risk
Project is a long-term initiative addressing different aspects and
elements of risk across a range of issues.

The first series is all about catastrophe trends - an issue that
concerns not just the insurance industry but everyone with an interest
in the future of our planet. This series will run over the coming months
and as it evolves we hope to understand more about catastrophe trends
and what the insurance industry and indeed the wider business world and
society can do to cope with catastrophes. Future series of the 360 Risk
Project will address similar important and wide-ranging issues. But, as
the 360 Risk Project is all about creating discussion and debate, we
want your views on what topics we should be addressing. Send us your
ideas on what should be on the agenda by emailing us at
<360@lloyds.com>.\"\]

\(5\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Hsu, Spencer. \"Homeland Security Bill Is More Style Than Substance,
Analysts Say.\" WP, 24Sep06.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300909_pf.html>

New York Times. \"Chemical Plants, Still Unprotected.\" September 25,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/opinion/25mon1.html?hp]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/opinion/25mon1.html?hp)

\[Excerpt: \"Congress still has done nothing to protect Americans from a
terrorist attack on chemical plants. Republican leaders want to give the
impression that that has changed. But voters should not fall for the
spin. If the leadership goes through with the strategy it seems to have
adopted last week to secure these highly vulnerable targets, national
security will be the loser.\"\]

\(6\) KATRINA:

Roberts, Patrick S. \"What Katrina Meams for Emergency Management.\" The
Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3, Article 2, 12 pages, November 2005. Accessed at:

[[http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss3/art2/]{.underline}](http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss3/art2/)
or
<http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/what_katrina_means_for_emergency_management/>

\(7\) MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW:

Disasters - The Journal of Disaster Studies and Management, Vol. 30, No.

3, September 2006. (Quarterly, Blackwell Publishers, 350 Main St.,
Malden, MA 02148, (800) 835-6770, (781) 388-8232 (fax), URL:

[[http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk]{.underline}](http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/),
e-mail: <subscrip@blackwellpub.com>.)

Earthquake Quarterly, Winter 2006. (Western States Seismic Policy
Council, 121 Second Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415)
974-6435, URL:
[[http://www.wsspc.org]{.underline}](http://www.wsspc.org/), e-mail:
<wsspc@wsspc.org>.)

Homeland Protection Professional, Vol. 5, No. 7, August 2006. (Published
10 times a year by A.J. Parrino & Associates Ltd. For information go to:
[[http://www.hppmag.com]{.underline}](http://www.hppmag.com/))

\(8\) PREPAREDNESS:

Schmid, Randolph E. \"All U.S. Public Schools To Get Weather Radios.\"

Associated Press, 25Sep06.

<http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060925/NEWS01/609250330/1006>

\[Excerpt: \"\...the government planned to announce today that it will
supply hazard warning radios to all 97,000 public schools in the United
States.\"\]

\(9\) THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT \-- PAPERS FROM THE 2005 HIGHER
EDUCATION CONFERENCE:

Have received for review from Dr. William L. Waugh, Jr., editor of this
compilation of papers from the 2005 FEMA Emergency Management Higher
Education Conference, the following material for review and posting:

\* Introduction, Dr. Waugh, Georgia State University

\* Future Challenges to Human Survival in the 21st Century, Dr. Rick
Bissell, U. of MD, Balt.Ct.

\* The Future of Emergency Management, George Haddow and Jane Bullock,
George Washington Univ.

\* Revolutionary and Evolutionary Change in Emergency Management, Dr.

David McEntire, UNT

\* The Future of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Dr. Waugh

\* The Evolution of U.S. Emergency Management, Dr. Dennis Mileti,
Professor Emeritus, UCB

\* Designing Educational Opportunities for the Emergency Management
Professional of the 21st

Century: Formulating an Approach for a Higher Education Curriculum, Dr.
Neil Britton,

Earthquake Disaster Research Centre, Japan and John Lindsay, Brandon
University, Canada

\* International Disaster Management Cooperation: A Case Study for
Turkey & the USA, Dr. Derin Ural, Istanbul Technical University

\* Social Science Hazard/Disaster Research: Its Legacy for Emergency
Management Higher Education, Dr\'s Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel and Jennifer
Wilson, North Dakota State University (at the time).

Forwarded all chapters to the EMI Webmaster for upload to the EM HiEd
Project website \-- Free College Courses and Books tab \-- Books section
\-- where they should be accessible soon.

\(10\) WAR ON TERROR:

FoxNews.com. \"Bill Clinton Roundtable (Transcript).\" September 24,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215397,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215397,00.html)

Greenberg, David. \"Spin Doctors.\" Washington Post, September 24, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101439.html>

\[A review of New York Times columnist Frank Rich\'s book \"The Greatest
Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.\"

Greenberg is a professor of history and media studies at Rutgers.\]

Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. \"\`Islamo-Fascism\' Had Its Moment.\" New York
Times, September 24, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/weekinreview/24stolberg.html?ref=washington>

York, Byron. \"Bill Clinton\'s Excuses.\" National Review, September 24,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDM4N2E1MzU5ZjQ0YTA3YmJiYzEyYjQ2ZDBiNWJlYjE>

\[Excerpt: \"\...the bottom line is that Bill Clinton, the
commander-in-chief, could not find the will to order the military into
action against al Qaeda, and Bill Clinton, the head of the executive
branch, could not find the will to order the CIA and FBI to act. No
matter what the former president says on Fox, or anywhere else, that is
his legacy in the war on terror.\"\]

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR - AFGHANISTAN:

Womack, Helen. \"You Will Be Driven From Afghanistan Just As We Were,
Russian Generals Warn.\" Telegraph (UK), September 24, 2006. Accessed
at:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/wafg124.xml>

\(12\) WAR ON TERROR - IRAN:

Hart, Gary. \"The October Surprise.\" Huffington Post, September 23,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/the-october-surprise_b_30086.html>

\[Excerpt: \"It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration
undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November
election.\"\]

\(13\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Mazzetti, Mark. \"Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat.\"

New York Times, September 23, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?ex=1159329600&en=2abafb2fa43a0d5d&ei=5087%0A>

Shenon, Philip, Mark Mazzetti. \"Study of Iraq War and Terror Stirs
Strong Political Response.\" New York Times, September 25, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/world/middleeast/25terror.html?ref=worldspecial>

\(14\) WAR ON TERROR - PAKISTAN:

Ansan, Massoud. \"Omar Role in Truce Reinforces Fears that Pakistan
\'Caved In\' to Taliban.\" Telegraph (UK), September 24, 2006. Accessed
at:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/wafg24.xml>

CBS News. \"Musharraf: In The Line of Fire\" (Transcript of 60 Minutes
Steve Kroft Interview). September 24, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/21/60minutes/main2030165.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/21/60minutes/main2030165.shtml)

\(15\) WAR ON TERROR \-- UNITED STATES:

Malik, Imaad. \"American Muslims and the Global War on Terror.\" Family
Security Matters, September 18, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=274333#]{.underline}](http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=274333)

\[Excerpt: \"It is\...the moment for American Muslims to infuse Islam
with a moderate spirit that will make it an effective counterforce to
radical Islam. American Muslims must utilize our intellect and talent to
support America in the war on Islamic terrorism. In addition, we can use
these same powers to help restore vitality to Islam worldwide, improving
its response to the social, economic and political demands of a global
society. Since the Iranian revolution, radicalism had spread in Islam.
But with the defeat of extremism, Islam may enhance human freedom and
human dignity. This is the religious community we American Muslims must
create for ourselves and for our children, and for the security of our
neighbors, in the common combat against tyranny and for the expansion of
freedom.\"\]

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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