**September 24, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Guitta, Olivier. \"The Islamization of Morocco.\" Weekly Standard, Vol.
12, #3, October 2, 2006. At:
[[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/740boykt.asp?pg=1]{.underline}](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/740boykt.asp?pg=1)

Kessler, Glenn. \"Anger at U.S. Policies More Strident at U.N.\"
Washington Post, 24 Sep 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300910_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300910_pf.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Philippe Douste-Blazy, France\'s foreign minister,
attributed some of the anger to the \'globalization of pictures and
images,\' which he said meant \'different civilizations and cultures
then rub increasingly against each other, far more so than before\'.
\'You may believe yourself stronger because you have your own values of
strength,\' he said in an interview, referring to the United States.
\'But for others there are other values. Therefore, I believe what is
essential and ideal is to have respect of others and therefore knowledge
of others. That is why the clash of civilization is in fact a clash of
ignorance\'.\"\]

\(2\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? \-- POPE\'S REMARKS:

Durie, Mark. \"Creed of the Sword.\" The Australian, September 23, 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20460114-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20460114-601,00.html)

\[Subtitle: \"Islam has to accept that its militants find support for
violence in their faith\'s teachings and should pursue reform.\" Note:
Dr Mark Durie is an Anglican vicar and a fellow of the Australian
Academy of the Humanities.\]

Harris, Lee. \"Socrates or Muhammad?\" Weekly Standard, Vol. 12, #3,
October 2, 2006. At:
[[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/736fyrpi.asp]{.underline}](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/736fyrpi.asp)

\[Excerpt: \"\...Socrates and Plato were not pagan thinkers; they
prefigured Christianity\.... It is a legacy that we in the West are all
duty-bound to keep alive\--yet it is a legacy that is under attack, both
from those who do not share it, namely Islam, and from those who are its
beneficiaries and do not understand it, namely, Western
intellectuals.\"\]

Kelly, Paul. \"Live By the Word, Die By The Word.\" The Australian,
September 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20460113-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20460113-601,00.html)

\[Subtitle: \"The Catholic Church has highlighted Islam\'s linkage of
religion with violence, argues editor-at-large Paul Kelly.\"\]

Maiden, Samantha. \"Turkey a Muslim Model: Costello.\" The Australian,
September 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20461883-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20461883-601,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"PETER Costello says Ataturk\'s creation of a secular Muslim
state in Turkey is a model that should be adopted by the modern Islamic
world. The Treasurer, in a speech to be delivered today to a Christian
lobby conference in Canberra, will dismiss Islamic extremists\' efforts
to create caliphates bound by religious law.\"\]

Price, Matt. \"A Brave Face of Engaged Islam.\" The Australian,
September 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20462454-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20462454-601,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Recently it was Benedict XVI who clumsily raised the
hackles of hyper-sensitive Muslims, but next week it will just as likely
be a politician or policeman or academic. A sober, scholarly papal
lecture mentions Islam and violence in the same sentence and
recriminations rattle across the globe. Reaction in Australia,
thankfully, is devoid of violence but, sadly, our Islamic leaders still
signally fail to step up to the plate.\"\]

Stan, Adele M. \"Benedict the Bombthrower.\" American Prospect,
September 21, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=12040]{.underline}](http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=12040)

\[Subtitle: \"Why the pope\'s speech in Germany really was outrageous.
\"\]

\(3\) WAR ON TERROR:

Dorfman, Ariel. \"Are We Really So Fearful?\" Washington Post, September
24, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092201303_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092201303_pf.html)

Grunwald, Michael. \"A Combative Clinton Defends Record on Fighting
Terrorism.\" WPost, 24Sep06. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300928.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300928.html)

Meyerson, Harold. \"Into a Moral Desert.\" Washington Post, September
20, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901440.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901440.html)

\[Excerpt: \"Defend civilization by becoming as barbaric as its enemies,
Ford suggests, and you are no longer really part of that civilization.
Or perhaps you are, but that civilization has lost some of its ideals,
its raison d\'être, in the process.\"\]

Sunday Times. \"US Urged to Scrap Army\'s Warrior Creed.\" September 25,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20470337-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20470337-601,00.html)

Walters, Patrick. \"Unclear and Present Danger.\" The Australian,
September 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20459724-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20459724-601,00.html)

\[Subtitle: \"The public is still not fully aware of the gravity of the
threat posed by Islamist extremists, Britain\'s anti-terror
supremo\...\"\]

\(4\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AL QAEDA:

Reid, Robert. \"Experts: Threat From al-Qaida Is Down.\" Washington
Post, September 24, 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400273.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400273.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...many analysts believe the day-to-day threat from
al-Qaida itself has dropped. Paradoxically, however, the threat from
Islamic extremists may have grown \_ and become broader, more diverse
and more complex, and thus harder to combat.\"\]

\(5\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

DeYoung, Karen. \"Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight.\"
Wash. Post, 24 Sep 2006.
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092301130_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092301130_pf.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle
for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential
terrorists around the world whose numbers may be increasing faster than
the United States and its allies can reduce the threat, U.S.
intelligence analysts have concluded.\"\]

Pickler, Nedra. \"Intel: War Has Worsened Terror Threat.\" Washington
Post, September 24, 2006. At:
[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400209_pf.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400209_pf.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The classified assessment of the war\'s impact on terrorism
came in a National Intelligence Estimate that represents a consensus
view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government\...\"\]

\(6\) WAR ON TERROR \-- PAKISTAN:

Chaudrhy, Lakshmi. \"Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass.\" In These Times,
September 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2831/]{.underline}](http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2831/)

\[Subtitle: \"The Bush administration\'s pragmatic policy toward
Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than
imperial.\" Note: Reader comments following the article dispute this
conclusion.\]

Garenstein-Ross, Daveed & Bill Roggio. \"Pakistan Surrenders.\" The
Weekly Standard, Vol. 12, #3, 2 Oct 2006. At:
[[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/738ijawx.asp]{.underline}](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/738ijawx.asp)

Lamb, Christina. \"Whose Side Is Pakistan On?\" Sunday Times, September
24, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20470336-601,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20470336-601,00.html)

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

Garoweon News. \"Somalia: Jihad Registration Office To Open In
Mogadishu.\" September 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_5128.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_5128.shtml)

\[Excerpt: \"Islamic Courts officials told hundreds of supporters at a
rally in Mogadishu that an office would be opened for would-be fighters
to register. The Islamist officials, who were speaking to supporters at
Friday\'s anti-foreign peacekeepers rally in Mogadishu, said the office
would be used to register fighters for a jihad against foreign
troops.\"\]

\[\"Jihad Watch\" commentary on this article: \"If this catches on
worldwide, it will give Western officials something new to do: just as
now they assure us that this or that incident had nothing to do with
terrorism on the basis of the perpetrator not being a known member of
Al-Qaeda or some other terrorist group, so then they will assure the
public that the latest incident of violence and terror wasn\'t really
jihad, since the perpetrator was unregistered.\"\]

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

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\(301\) 447-1262, voice

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

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