JIHAD VERSUS MCWORLD: WHOSE PARADISE IS LOST? PROFESSOR JULIA EVERGREEN KEEFER

Jihad vs McWorld: Whose Paradise is Lost?in Civilisation's War on Terror

PROFESSOR EVERGREEN KEEFER

When Jihad hit McWorld was democracy reborn?

Check out the Journal of Online Education issue on TERRORISM
Spring 2002:Writing Workshop II 2002 and Argumentation 2002

READING LIST

Fall 2001: WRITING WORKSHOP II, SCREENWRITING, PUBLIC SPEAKING/RHETORIC AND TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE

"I want to be just like Daddy when I blow up." (A Palestinian child at play)

"The Messenger of God said 'A martyr has six privileges with God. He is forgiven his sins on the shedding of the first drop of his blood; he is shown his place in paradise; he is redeemed from the torments of the grave; he is made secure from the fear of hell and a crown of glory is placed on his head of which one ruby is worth more than the world and all that is in it; he will marry seventy-two of the huris with black eyes; and his intercession will be accepted for seventy of his kinsmen.' " Al-Khatib Al-Tibrizi

"It's a system that suffocates you slowly, slowly. {about the Israeli occupation of Palestine} It paralyses your life, daily. And the people arrive to the point of explosion, and they cannot explode. And then one of the suicide bombers explodes instead of them." Saleh Abdel Jawad

"We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all." But it's this mysterious sheik who is the more evil: 'Fight them, Allah will torture them, with your hands, he will torture them. He will deceive them and he will give you victory. Allah will forgive the believers, he is knowledgeable about everything. No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has bestowed on us...honor on us...and he will give us blessing and more victory during this holy month of Ramadan. And this is what everyone is hoping for. Thank Allah America came out of its caves. We hit her the first hit and the next one will hit her with the hands of the believers, the good believers, the strong believers. By Allah it is a great work. Allah prepares for you a great reward for this work....I live in happiness, happinesss...I have not experienced, or felt, in a long time.' Osama was right when he said: "[booksellers] don't have time to keep up with the demands of those who are asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam."

"We will bring the terrorists to justice or justice to the terrorists. This is a war against terrorism, not Islam. ....Americans are not greedy soul-less consumers." President Bush after 9/11

"The bad terror is what America and Israel are practicing against our people, and what we are practicing is the good terror that will stop them from doing what they are doing."Osama bin Laden

"A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass awayand, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven't taken their precautions. ...No one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences. " Albert Camus in THE PLAGUE

"Am I going to die--like this?" Joyce Carol Oates in BLACK WATER

"Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All. -- Alexander Pope, THE DUNCIAD

"Jihad pursues a bloody politics of identity, McWorld a bloodless economics of profit. Belonging by default to McWorld, everyone is a consumer; seeking a repository for identitiy, everyone belongs to some tribe. But no one is a citizen. Without citizenry, how can there be democracy?" (8)
"McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as material, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology."
McWorld: "...onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize peoples everywhere with fast music, fast computers, and fast food--MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's-- pressing nations into one homogenous global theme park, one McWorld tied together by communications, information, entertainment, and commerce. Caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling apart and precipitously coming together at the very same time." (4) Benjamin Barber

"McWorld is here. The gap between rich and poor, the breakdown of education at all levels, falling productivity, and spiritual anomie herald, Berman argues, the coming of a new dark age. The evidence is telling, and the remedy-- constructions of small monasteries of sanity-- credible." -Alvin Kernan, author of IN PLATO'S CAVE

"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. -Neil Postman, AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH

"Greedy authors, greedy agents, brainless book chains with their Vivaldi-riddled espresso bars, publishers owned by metallurgy conglomerates operated by glacially cold bean-counters in Geneva. And meanwhile language...is becoming the mellifluous happy-talk of Microsoft and Honda, corporate conspiracies that would turn the world into one big pinball game for child-brained consumers." -John Updike, BECH AT BAY

"Bush et Ben Laden ont desormais recours a la meme terminologie. Chacun represente la tete du serpent aux yeux de l'autre. Aucun ne se prive d'invoquer Dieu et d'employer un vague lexique millenariste ou ont cours les notions de bien et de mal. Ils sont tous les deux impliques dans des crimes politiques sans ambiguite, tous les deux armes jusqu'aux dents-l'un avec l'arsenal nucleaire des puissants qui ne redoutent pas l'obscenite, l'autre avec le rayonnement destructeur des cas les plus desesperes. La boule de feu et le pic a glace. La matraque et la hache. Ce qu'iiil faut garder present a l'esprit, c'est qucun terme de l'alternative ne represente une solution acceptable pour remplacer l'autre." Arundhati Roy from Paris Match

In Gold We Trust
"J'ai vu dans l'effondrement des deux tours du WTC la destruction du veau d'or. Et lorsque la camera nous a montre un groupe de personnes dans la rue, tentant d'echapper aux debris et au brasier, couvertes de poussiere de la tete aux pieds, je me suis souvenu de verset 20, chapitre 32, de l"Exode: Il prit le veau qu'ils avaient fabrique, le brula au feu, le moulut en poudre fine et en saupoudra la surface de l'eau qui'il fit boire aux Israelites. Tours du WTC detruites, Pentagone gravement atteint et maison-Blanche epargnee, voila trois symboles. La puissance economique, la puissance militaire et la puissance politique. Le symbole politique a ete epargne; l'oiseau phenix s'est donc envole du brasier. Il y a de l'espoir...La richesse devra etre au service des plus demunis. Le phenix s'est-il envole a la recherche d'un nouveau sauveur?"

Illusions create Delusions; Utopias Dystopias

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria Remarque

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH by Neil Postman

ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

BEYOND BELIEF:ISLAMIC EXCURSIONS AMONG THE CONVERTED PEOPLES by V.S Naipaul

BIN LADEN: THE MAN WHO DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA by Yossef Bodansky

BLACK WATER by Joyce Carol Oates

THIS BLINDING ABSENCE OF LIGHT by Tahar Ben Jelloun

BLOWBACK by Chalmers Johnson

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann

THE CAIRO TRILOGY by Naguib Mahfouz

THE CITIES OF SALT TRILOGY by A. Munif

THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS by Samuel P. Huntington

COLD NEW WORLD by William Finnegan

THE COLLAPSE OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES by Joseph A. Tainter

COLLECTED POLITICAL ESSAYS by Arundahti Roy

COMMUNICATION AS CULTURE by James Carey

CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION: THE SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MUSLIM SCHOLAR by Nasir al-Din Tusi

THE CRUSADES THROUGH ARAB EYES by Amin Maalouf

THE DAY THE LEADER WAS KILLED by Naguib Mahfouz

EINSTEIN'S DREAMS by Alan Lightman

FANTASIA by Assia Djebar

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

FLAME WARS by Mark Dery

FUTURE SHOCK by Alvin Toffler

GOD DIES BY THE NILE by Nawal el Saadawi

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundahti Roy

THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fitzgerald

THE HIDDEN FACE OF EVE by Nawal el Saadawi

A HISTORY OF GOD by Karen Armstrong

HOLY WAR, INC. by Peter L. Bergen

THE HOSTAGE by Zayd Mutee'Damaj

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? TERRORISM AND THE NEW WAR edited by James F. Hoge, Jr., and Gideon Rose

HUMANITY by Jonathan Glover

IN OUR OWN WORDS by Senator Robert Torricelli

IN PLATO'S CAVE by Alvin Kernan

INFERNO by Dante

ISLAM by Malise Ruthven

ISLAM, LIBERTY AND DEVELOPMENT by Mohammed Khatami

JIHAD versus MCWORLD by Benjamin Barber

THE JOKE by Milan Kundera

KABUL by Tony Kushner

THE KORAN

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Thomas Mann

MARTYR's CROSSING by Amy Wilentz

NIGHT by Elie Wiesel

1984 by George Orwell

NEITHER EAST NOR WEST by Christiane Bird

NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre

ORIGINS OF TERRORISM edited by Walter Reich

OSAMA BIN LADEN by Hamid Mir

THE PENAL COLONY by Franz Kafka

THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus

THE POETICS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: THE ISLAMIC CONTEXT by Aziz Esmail

THE PRINCE by Machiavelli

RED AZALEA by Anchee Min

SANCTUARY by William Faulkner

SHAME by Taslima Nasrin

A SHORT HISTORY OF ISLAM by Karen Armstrong

SOUL MOUNTAIN by Gao Xingjian

TERRORISM IS THE SOLUTION by Mustafa Kamil

THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe

THE TRUE BELIEVER by Eric Hoffer

THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN CULTURE by Morris Berman

WAR IN THE LAND OF EGYPT by Yusuf al-Qa'id

THE WASTELAND by T.S.Eliot

WHITE NOISE by Don DeLillo

WILD THORNS by Sahar Khalifeh

WOMEN AT POINT ZERO by Nawal el Saadawi

THE WOMEN OF SAND AND MYRRH by Hana al-Shaykh

Students: Please continue to give suggestions for optional reading

McWorld at Full Tilt

There is No Exit
the Plague is upon us.
CNN stands by live,
as God Dies by the Nile.

The Brave New World
becomes a Wasteland
of Black Waters and White Noise,
lacking Sanctuary and Humanity.

Black Waters flow
covering our eyes,
Hiding the symbols,
Golden Arches,
Red, White and Blue,
Just do it, people, just do it.

We live the Joke,
but we take it seriously.
Einstein’s Dreams
could never create this -
A world where fantasy becomes reality.

This Cold New World,
becomes a dim, flickering light
In the Twilight of American Culture.
Talking about A history of God,
which is really the story of man’s eternal struggle.

The Magic Mountain has lost its spunk
We sing and dance, gyrating in a funk.
Imagining we are Angels in America,
Red Azaleas in our hair.

In Our Own Words,
the Collapse of Complex Societies,
are caught on tape, in print and on the web,
shown repeatedly for your viewing pleasure.

The revolution will be televised, streamlined,
cross-edited, mass marketed,
written up and bound in hard cover and paperback
before the first drop of blood dries.

Jihad vs. McWorld,
coming soon to a theater near you.
Another hit in the series
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Orgy porgy begins now.

Sherida Davis-Bryan.

Nursing History's Clipped Branches in A New American Syncretism by Philip Simon

Our species’ memory threads through the fabric of modernity in a pattern no longer recognized for all its sublimity, terrifyingly sublime as traditions may sometimes be, yet Islam’s politicized tribalism itself offers a unique and adaptive vision of cognitive coherence in the model of the gnostic Ismaili sect. Can ascetic faith possibly combine with cosmopolitanism, schemes of social justice hand-in-glove with sophisticated economic exchange? Indeed the nature of both faith and material economy incline the contemporary observer and the popular mind to estimate and define the former by its fundamentals and the latter by its practical effects. All meaningful change takes place at the fundament of a system, though, and in such months as these since September 11th, 2001, when religious faith’s fundamentals tend to be inductively associated with unilateral, isolated terror, and the politics of economy are called ever greater to account for discrepancies, for hypocrisy and mechanistic shortsightedness, an exploration of the material effects of spiritual belief countermand the non sequitur polarity with which the notion of absolute truth charges competing religious claims, and the social Darwinism by which one notion tends to subsume the Other. McWorld would swallow Jihad would swallow McWorld like Counts Ugolino feeding on the heads of each infernal neighbor for all eternity: the death of intellectual curiosity and spiritual courage are the death of enlightened citizenship, but the syncretic ideal upon which capitalist democracy was constitutionalized defines itself by the incorporation of effectively synergistic systems. In search of the Kantian meta-Rational noumenon, the Imam’s cognitive flexibility is a movement toward personal order within complex societies’ eternally-recurrent entropy.

The syllabus is modified to embrace the problems related to Terrorism 911. JIHAD VS MCWORLD is required reading as well as daily newspapers etc. The traditional syllabus should be combined with cutting edge research on contemporary events and people. Alter egos can be chosen from Terrorism 9/11 or IN OUR OWN WORDS. Make sure alter egos can journey through the present, the reading list , and your research.

Both WWII and Twentieth Century Literature students will struggle with this condition of paradise lost, by examining rhetoric and developing research projects, and by analysing the literature of the period. What makes a culture fall apart? Does it have to happen? What accelerates it? Why did so many of the great human experiments of the twentieth century fail-- except human rights? Is America in its twilight years? Why and when will it fall? Will there be a new superpower? Can any person or institution or phenomena contest the global corporate oligarchy? What hopes and visions are contained in the speeches of great leaders of the twentieth century? How do fiction, poetry, film and drama reflect the distinctive aesthetics, politics and philosophies of this turbulent time? Screenwriting students can frame their stories and introduce high concept material by playing with this theme of paradise lost. Public speaking students will examine the social and political rhetoric that both creates and destroys this "paradise." All students will weave their projects around the four subthemes of Jihad vs. McWorld, Low vs.High Brow Culture, Brave New World vs. Cold New World, and To Be--or Not To Be--a Child. {The above paragraph was written in the summer before 9/11. The course changed to focus more on weaving this syllabus around the events after 9/11 related to the Civilisation vs Terrorism, Jihad vs McWorld struggle.}

WWII students should develop cross disciplinary research projects around one of the four sub themes listed in the Breakdown. In addition, a webfolio of creative writing in different genre, in your voice as well as the voice of your alter ego from IN OUR OWN WORDS or Terrorism 9/11 will be compiled and uploaded, as well as the 15-20 page individual research project. They will edit a submission to JOE and get extra credit if their paper is chosen for publication.

Lit students will choose two or more authors to analyse, giving oral presentations which will grow into critical writing for the webfolio. In addition, they will also assume a character at the beginning, and do creative writing in and outside of class in their personae. They will edit at least one submission for JOE and submit their creative and critical writing where appropriate.

GRADING is based on weekly attendance (no more than one absence to get an A), weekly writing assignments, a 15-20 page research paper for WWII, a 15-20 page webfolio (including critical and creative writing) for Twentieth Century Literature, and oral presentations and group websites for both. Both classes will be divided into 3 or 4 groups which will prescribe a utopia, paradise, corporation :) and see how individual projects fit in. It is okay, in fact encouraged, to be dissident.

Student Work:
A Comparison of Peking Revolutionary Opera with Post 9/11 Propaganda: A Call to Arms by Sherida Bryan-Davis
The 2 9/11s by Helen Torres
Cyberspeech: How The Veiled Ummah find their Voice on the Internet by Danielle Ramos
A Reformed Suicide Bomber in the 77th St Subway Station, Manhattan by Yiannis Petrohilos in the voice of his alter ego, Mahmoud Aziz
Freedom Fighters/Terrorists=A Dying Role by Melissa Rosenblatt Afghan Woman's Imaginary Journal by Jane Schreck
An Imaginary Journal of Einstein's Dreams through 9/11 and Twentieth Century Literature by John Marrapodi
Literary Journey of Sherida Davis-Bryan as Madame Mao Osama Comes to New Paltz. Cameraman: Kleber Delgado, Post-Production: Douglas Short, Digitalization: Linda Smith, NYU Streaming Video: Rich Malenitza: Fast Connection or 56k
Mock Criminal Trials of John Walker Lindh and Zacarias Moussaoui:
How Can You--Defend John Walker Lindh? by Frank Mosono
Mock Attorney for Moussaoui by Michael Boyd
Walker's Road to Jihad via McWorld by Christopher Tripoli
The New American Syncretism: Ismailiyya and its Imam as the Unity of Ascetic and Cosmopolitan Social Justice through Capitalist Positivism by Philip Simon
Missing the Beat by Michael Munves
Rebuilding McWorld by Andre O. Jordan
Afghanistan Before and After 9/11 by Fareed Tokhi, an Afghan studying near Ground Zero
Americans: The Truest Believers by Ioannis Petrohilos
Non-Believers: Adopting the Buddhist Way by Thomas Maunz
Violence Like a Volcano in Dominica by Marjorie George
Osama's Narcissism by Eric Rosen
Osama's Game by Counter-Terrorist Michael Eber
Assessing and Combating the Hacker Potential of Al-Qaeda by Christopher McComas
Messiahs of God by Marissa Alessandria
Jihad vs McWorld: Only One Will Stand by Dylan Tucker

C. Memoirs of Student Refugees of 9/11
a) Near Ground Zero:
i. Einstein's Best Dream by Jane Schreck
ii. Andre Alliance's Journal
iii. Avril Oliver's Journal of Post 9/11 Trauma
iv.From Jersey and Back: 9/11 by Melissa Rosenblatt
v. 9/11 by Christopher McComas
vi. Fuck the Terrorists by Michael Munves
vii. Alone by Marjorie George
viii. Blue Tuesday by Marissa Alessandria

D. Comic Perspectives on Terrorism
1)Laughing at T errorism by Deborah Drucker
2)Bionic Beings: The Ultimate Survival directed by Brian Buchanan

Breakdown for Fall 2001

(Breakdown is for writing, rhetoric and lit classes in order to develop cross disciplinary thinking. You will also share a joint listserv and participate in editing and writing for the terrorism issue of the Journal of Online Education.You can make up a class in the morning(Main 501 9:30) or afternoon (Waverly 436:2:00). However the objectives and foci are different, and WWII students do not have to read the entire fiction syllabus because they must develop their own 3 page bibliography for research projects. The group assignments for both classes are similar, while individual projects stress research skills in WWII and critical close textual analyses in the literature class. Both classes submit writing every week.)

September 8: Introduction to course, students, reading list, groups. Lit students put EINSTEIN'S DREAMS by your bed, read a few pages every night before sleeping, letting Lightman's images of space and time seep into your unconscious. Discussion of groups and subthemes. For next week write a 2/3 page paper in the voice of your alter ego, a speaker from IN OUR OWN WORDS or Terrorism 9/11. {Thousands of people are killed in terrorist attacks on WTC and the Pentagon.}

September 15: Improvisational writing and reading. Break into 3 small groups. Lecture on logic, argumentation and research skills. WWII: Read JIHAD vs MCWORLD, and THE COLLAPSE OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES. Finish reading THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN CULTURE. Write a short essay for next week, identifying the thesis and taking a position stance, and submit a speech or poem in the words of your alter ego. Lit presentation of EINSTEIN's DREAMS by John. Free writing on reversing time. {International week of mourning: commercial television is suspended as images of collapsing buildings are hypnotically replayed hour after hour. New York suddenly gets a reputation as a "kind, gentle place" amidst its smoke, ashes and stench of death, and Mayor Giuliani gains international stature as the ideal crisis leader.}

September 22:WWII students: Don't forget that you must submit two assignments every week, in your research voice and alter ego. In class writing on cliches, memorable expression, hypnosis, phrases that will endure in time surrounding 9/11 and BRAVE NEW WORLD. Lit students should submit at least one webfolio assignment per week in either their own voice or their alter ego. Oral presentations must be written and organized as MLA critical analyses. Read AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH. Lecture on research strategies and close textual analysis. Lit presentation of BRAVE NEW WORLD by Tyler. {Security measures around the U.S. tighten. Network censorship for media war.}

September 29:In class writing on cultural events related to 9/11-- tasteless, frivolous, inspiring, transcendental etc. Clarification of subgroups and alter egos. Lecture on developing originality in research. Reread TWILIGHT and JIHAD. Lit presentation of RED AZALEA by Avril. {Firemen and police officers become nation's new heroes as they dig tirelessly in the rubble for their fallen brothers-- not too many sisters it seems.}

October 6: Deadline for research proposals, including hypotheses, list of interviews, and preliminary 3 page bibliography. Discussion of media coverage of 9/11 as a tragic event, upstaging regular programming. Lit presentation of GOD DIES BY THE NILE, lecture on El Saadawi and Islamic feminism and Middle Eastern dance demo, by Jane. {U.S. formally begins to bomb Afghanistan to "smoke out" Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist cells. FBI posts Most Wanted Global Terrorist list.}

October 13: Oral Presentations for WWII in groups. Rhetorical analyses. Lit presentation of THINGS FALL APART. Reading of webfolios on GOD DIES BY THE NILE and THINGS FALL APART. {Bioterrorist attacks continue as anthrax is discovered at NBC, ABC, the New York Times, the Post and Media centers in Florida.}

October 20: Oral Presentations for WWII in groups. Lit presentation of Milan Kundera's THE JOKE and Albert Camus' THE PLAGUE. {US ground forces enter Afghanistan. Anthrax investigation focuses on New Jersey. Attempted bombings are thwarted in Greyhound bus terminals and other places in the Northeast. Israelis take Palestine-occupied Jerusalem after their Minister of Tourism is assassinated by the PLO. Bush gets verbal support from Asia in war on terrorism.}

October 27:WWII bring rough drafts for cross editing. Refining argumentative strategies. Bring printed copies of NO EXIT of Keefer webpage and act it out. Readings from Dante's INFERNO. Discussion of Jean Paul Sartre and Existentialism as it relates to 9/11 and the reality and threats of bioterrorism. Get e pals in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel etc. {Anthrax crimes scenes all over Capitol Hill and midtown Manhattan. Bombing mistakes by US in Afghanistan. Anti-American rallies throughout Muslim countries. Americans admit they may never get bin Laden.}

November 3: Midterm papers due--5-8 pages on research topic for WWII, and 10 page webfolio of weekly writing for lit students. Cross edit. Discussion of twentieth century stylistic inventions: BLACK WATER by Oates, THE WASTELAND by Eliot, Molly Bloom's Soliloquy. Death and the beauty of language. Deeper discussion of tragedy as a genre.{Rebuilding McWorld: Billionaire Mike Bloomfield is elected mayor of New York city, a financial megastar with no political experience. Incentives continue to stimulate the economy.}

November 10: Outlines, bibliography and revisions proposals for final research papers due. Analyse rhetorical paradigms for better organization. Investigating McWorld. Making work more original. Act out ANGELS IN AMERICA, presentation by Collette. Discussion of American Utopias, dreams shattered, paradise lost. {Today. Saturday, President Bush and Chairman Yasser Arafat address the United Nations as Osama bin Laden, hiding in his cave in Afghanistan, condemns the UN, calls Kofi Annan, who just won the Nobel Prize for Peace, a criminal, and tells his blindfolded Pakistani biographer Hamid Mir that he possesses nuclear and chemical weapons which he will use against the US in retaliation. As we walk past the UN on the way home from NYU we can barely get past the heightened security.}

November 17: Drafts of final WWII research papers due for cross editing. Lit presentation of THE GREAT GATSBY and WHITE NOISE. Discussion of Don DeLillo's criticism of McWorld, analysis of the decadence of nouveau riche culture.{Another American Airlines jet, Flight 587, crashes into New York suburb, killing 265 people. Taliban defeated in Afghanistan, Mohammed Atef, al Qaeda military commander, believe killed. U.S. accidentally bombs mosque, killing civilians, on the first day of Ramadan. Omar and Osama vow to "bury U.S." How to manuals and CDs on nuclear and biological warfare discovered in al Qaeda military quarters.}

November 24: THANKSGIVING N.B. After Thanksgiving, no more classrooms! All classes meet in computer lab, Multimedia Mac Lab, second floor, School of Ed to design sites for JOE, edit submissions, work on webfolios. We may also attempt a field/photo/memorial trip to ground zero.

December 1: Intro to Dreamweaver. Select submissions for JOE. Cross edit research papers and webfolios. {John Walker, a Californian turned Taliban soldier is found in a prison uprising in Afghanistan after being interviewed by CIA agent Mike Spann. Spann was killed a few hours later by an American bomb.}

December 8:Final upload of all material to websites, both group and individual. Meet in computer lab. SUNY shoots film, OSAMA COMES TO NEW PALTZ. {Kandahar falls but Omar and Osama are still at large. Anti-Taliban forces manically search for the sheik in the formidable labyrinths of Tora Bora. Afghans begin to rebuild their country with a democratic government that includes women and aid from NATO.}

December 15: Final hard copies of research paper and webfolio due. Work in lab to edit journal. Trip to United Nations, a mosque, church and synagogue, Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty at sunset. {A home video of Osama chuckling about 9/11 and receiving accolades for his expert planning from a legless Saudi is discovered in an abandoned cave, but there is still no sign of "the evil one." Rumor has it that he has shaved his beard, is hiding in Pakistan or has succumbed to kidney disease. But there are thousands more to take his place.}TO BE CONTINUED. Come to Terrorism and Education for scholarly papers, poetry, artwork and discussion.