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The Muslim Public Affairs Council held a community townhall on the aftermath of the Fort Hood attack on Sunday, November 22 at the Islamic Center of Southern California. Speakers include MPAC Senior Advisor Dr. Maher Hathout and MPAC Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati. Topics covered include: - Misused Quranic verses - How to counter extreme interpretations of the Quran - How to combat Islamophobia For more info on MPAC, visit www.mpac.org.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. I wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday. I hope that you re able to spend it with your loved ones. This is short list, it is not exhaustive. This is what I m thankful for: I m thankful for a wonderful, loving wife and family. I could not be more blessed. I m thankful that I m not writing George Bush s autobiography. How do you make eight years of failure sound good? I am thankful for our wonderful troops overseas here at home. I m hopeful that the troops at Fort Hood are getting the support that they need. I m thankful that Bernie Madoff got none of my money. I m sad that Wall Street CEO s didn t personally invest in his schemes. I m thankful that Joe the Plumber s 10 minutes is up. I m thankful that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin became president. I m thankful that Barack Obama is our president. I m thankful that the House has passed healthcare legislation. I m glad that Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson don t represent me or my state. I m glad that progressives rejected Joe Lieberman. I m just sorry they couldn t convince the rest of the state not to vote for him. I am thankful for Senator Al Franken who has stood up for working women and against big corporations. I am thankful that I belong to a party that does not hold litmus test for entry. I am in thankful that the economy is improving. I m extremely hopeful that the economy will begin making jobs in the first quarter of next year. We need jobs. We desperately need millions of jobs. We need slow, and stay sustain growth not for two or three years but for an extended period of time. We need green jobs. We need jobs that cannot be shipped overseas. We need American companies to begin to invest Americans again.

Attorney says Hasan is lucid and won't plead guilty to charges of killing 13. Plea - Law - United States - Law Enforcement - Prosecuting Attorneys

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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a regular at a strip club and shooting range. Shooting range - Guns - Recreation - Organizations - Range Facilities

Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. With the Stupak amendment and the Fort Hood shootings, new unemployment numbers in the double digits and questions over troop escalation in Afghanistan, not to mention the resignation of embattled CNN host Lou Dobbs, there was a lot to cover this week. Every Thursday, we look at the way the stories of the day get told, point out the problems and offer some solutions with a variety of media makers.Rose Aguilar, of Your Call Radio and author of Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland , John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America , Dan Gross, columnist at Newsweek and author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation , and Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker and author of OB MANOS!: The Rise of a New Political Era look at the media's biggest hits and misses of the past week. Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan.Last December, videojournalist Jennifer Utz and Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee, joined us at GRITtv to talk about Mohamed's journey from Iraq to the U.S.