Sanders no doubt thinks that the root cause is poverty and the solution is wealth redistribution, but actually there is abundant evidence that poverty does not cause terrorism. So what does? Here you go, Bernie, straight from the Qur’an:
2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.”
8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”
8:39: “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”
8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”
9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”
9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”
9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”
47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their w
“Sanders: We need to get to the ‘root cause’ of September 11 attacks,” by Daniel J. Roth, Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sanders voiced his support for Senate legislation that would allow victims of terror attacks to sue foreign governments in federal court.
US Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said that America has to get to the “root cause” of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, explaining that unanswered questions concerning Saudi Arabia need to be addressed.
During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sanders voiced support for Senate legislation that would allow victims of terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments in federal court.
The proposed bill has caused consternation among Saudi officials, who fear they could be held partly responsible for the 2001 event and have threatened to take action if such legislation becomes law.
At least 15 of the 19 terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks were Saudi nationals, and questions still remain whether officials within the Islamic kingdom financially supported the perpetrators.
Twenty-eight pages of an 800- page report commissioned by former US president George W. Bush to investigate the 9/11 attacks have been redacted.
Those pages allegedly implicate a number of Saudi officials in the terrorist attacks. In 2003, Saudi Arabia asked for the documents to be released, saying it would give those implicated an opportunity to defend themselves.
The Bush administration refused, citing national security reasons.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told US lawmakers that the kingdom would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in Treasury securities and other US assets in response to the bill if it passed.
“I think there’s a lot about Saudi Arabia that we don’t fully understand. And I want to get to the root cause of it,” Sanders told the show’s moderator, Chuck Todd….

Christianblood says
(Sanders: We need to get to the ‘root cause’ of September 11 attacks)
According to the US/Western elites, 9/11 attacks was caused not by violent and barbaric islamic jihadist doctrine endemic in islam but by poverty and by political inequality etc.
Peter Charles says
Yet anyone who has looked into Islam knows the “root cause” IS islam..
mortimer says
I endorse CB’s reasonable comment about the jihad ideology being the true ‘source’ motive of 9/11.
What is the evidence that Saudi’s oil sheikhs and princes (who financed 9/11) felt disadvantaged?
Christianblood says
In the meantime, as many in Armenia and other countries remember the 101 Armenian genocide by the muslim Turks, US/Nato-allied genocidal Turks’ Seizure of several Churches in Diyarbakir Summons Fears of New Armenian/Christian Genocide in Turkey.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160425/1038540360/Seizure-Churches-Diyarbakir-New-Armenian-Genocide.html#ixzz46nuvwrDE
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160425/1038540360/Seizure-Churches-Diyarbakir-New-Armenian-Genocide.html
Shane says
The American people deserve to know which Saudis aided the 9/11 terrorists, and we demand that they be brought to justice.
Lion of Judah's Cub says
A four-point plan to stop islam and pull out its poisonous roots:
(1) Outlaw apostasy and blasphemy laws (and sharia law) as egregious violation of human rights – both internationally and nationally;
(2) Stop feeding the tigers by boycotting Saudi Arabia and Iran – the leading state sponsors of terror; stop buying their oil in US, Australia, Canada, and Europe, etc.
(3) Shut down the mosques and deport Saudi imams back to their home nation;
(4) Stop selling armaments and military equipment to islamic nations and stop providing foreign aid which finances such sales.
(This list is not exhaustive.)
paul says
Stop muslim immigration
Begin deportations
Outlaw islam
Put Mohammed on the $20
Don McKellar says
“Put Mohammed on the $20”
A strangely perverse and potentially very effective way to stop devout moslems from even thinking of visiting the United States, let alone trying to immigrate to it. The results of such a thing could lead to all sorts of insanity around the globe. But then Americans would have to stare at that evil fictional monster all the time, which would suck.
Angemon says
No, wait, let me guess: something about the “haves”, the “have nots” and class conflict.
mortimer says
But observe: Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (‘we need to find out where his hate is coming from’) have asked the political scientists to find out why Muslims are attacking the West.
The Left doesn’t like the answer, because they would have to abandon Muslims as a voting block.
paul says
Muslims will eventually only vote for another muslim
firefoxhits says
Agreed.
This multicultural push is the same in Canada. It is a guise by the left to bring in and pander to blocks of immigrants thereby guaranteeing votes in upcoming elections.
It is horrendously expensive for the country plus it is poison in that it keeps the migrants focused on their allegiance to their nationality and home country before their integration into their host country.
It is poison to national pride and allegiance. If you aren’t prepared to integrate and assimilate, you are not qualified to stay. Go back. Or you will be deported.
sidney penny says
“whether officials within the Islamic kingdom financially supported the perpetrators.”
How else would have they done it?
It was a big money project.
underbed cat says
Don’t know exact number, but many islamic mosques and support organizations had been established within our country, which is always the goal for the ” innocent” migration to this country.Muslims established a presence, sought education and became employed. Money was donated.,The mosques were also funded from foreign money. and..that which was raised after setting up charities, which also had the goal of spreading the religion.. The relentless drive for a goal to spread islam and become dominate.(caliphate) So long before 9/11, curiously strange things were occurring and even when a confession and threats were made, no one believed it. They were protected and ignored as a religion and professed only peace…the kind that mixes chemicals and takes planes.
Lanya LaPunta says
Then, just as now, they were/are protected by islamophiliacs.
underbed cat says
The point being, after this messed up comment, is that the support organizations, structures and acceptance was already in place long before 9/11 occurred, and even the first attempt on the WTC. Preps were caught, practically confessed and still they could not suspect any connection due to the idea, that it was crazy talk….but it was not. Although history knew the culprit, it was in a resting period, the doctrine and sura’s, stayed the same, the motivation of the terrorist was compromised by a deliberate misinformation campaign to the public and political leaders. It is long over due that we not hide the information about the doctrine that a few learned about and were dismissed.
Angemon says
sidney penny posted:
“How else would have they done it?”
That’s my take as well. The only thing left to know is whether or not they did it at the request of the Saudi government.
Don McKellar says
Sanders can say whatever he wants now that Hillary has this one locked up. And you can be 100% certain that she must be mortified that her Saudi backers might have to answer for their crimes against humanity.
Just based on this story alone (never mind ALL the rest of her evil) how could any American POSSIBLY be supporting Hillary Clinton at this point?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/02/18/foreign-donations-to-hillary-clintons-foundation-raise-major-ethical-questions/
WorkingClassPost says
The extreme irony – if he had spoken up earlier when he still had a chance of winning, and properly called out Hilary and the Saudis, he would probably be the next president!
Not sure how that would’ve turned out.
Might be just as well that he said so little on the subject.
David M says
I agree, she is a compulsive liar among other things. Just one example of her lying, she claimed on numerous occasions when she landed at Bosnia airport they were under sniper fire. Then they showed the video of her getting off the plane & meeting & greeting everyone, with no sniper fire.
Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight
Lee smith says
And while you’re at it Bernie, let’s get down to the root cause to why since 1988 as a politician you haven’t done a damn thing noteworthy which invites the question why you think you are qualified to be POTUS? No one ever heard of you in your obscurity .
You’re confused about Islam and its violent history , yet quite adamant about criticizing Israel defending herself and coddling the Palestinian “victims”….. You are a pathetic excuse of a man…..close your blathering mouth, grab a comb and take your curmudgeon presence and get the hell off the campaign trail…..and take your criminal cohort Hilderbeast with you ‼️
JawsV says
Gramps Sandals is a joke. Thank God he won’t be president.
Anyone who doesn’t know by now that it’s Islam is either willfully ignorant or missing some firing neurons.
Fessitude says
That would only be reasonably and plausibly the case if the sheer numbers, geographic extent and depth of the myopia weren’t so great — or, if one concedes to notice how massive is the myopia throughout the West, one would then be comfortable in glibly damning so many fellow Westerners as either preternaturally stupid or evil. Neither position is respectable. The former doesn’t take seriously the magnitude of the Problem of the Problem (where the primary Problem is Islam, and the Problem of it is the West’s persisting myopia to the primary Problem), while the latter is too recklessly willing to condemn vast swaths of fellow Westerners.
This leads us to the most reasonable conclusion, of a strange yet unfortunately all too real kind of “quantum ignorance” or “learned foolishness” that has developed over a long period of time (centuries), and has evolved or morphed out of Graeco-Roman Judaeo-Christian virtues (not without considerable help, perhaps, from Gnostic currents of darker waters amid the Western Ocean, so to speak).
Gaurav says
Is it that simple though?
Nabi says
Trudeau said the same thing –root causes–after Boston. Where do they find these amazing numbskulls who never get it?
Cecilia Ellis says
“Where do they find these amazing numbskulls who never get it?”
In positions of leadership . . .
Ren says
If Sanders says “We need to get to the ‘root cause’ of September 11 attacks”, he proves to be ignorant about islam. He does not deserve to be president.
Billy Lynch says
No doubt if Sanders lived in a Muslim nation this filthy old lecher would prefer a preteen bride just like Muhammad had with Aisha.
Jeff says
Maybe one of these days we will have some genuine leadership in this country who have a firm grip on reality, who aren’t afraid to stand up and say what needs to be said and more importantly, do what needs to be done. The world is at war, it is a holy war and as we can clearly see, there is only unrighteousness and delusion amongst those with power in both the East and the West, yet it is only those who submit to islam who seem to have the will to fight. One can only wonder how much more blood has to be shed, how many more women and children have to be raped and abused, how much more death and destruction has to be spread by the sword of islam, before good men will rise up in the ranks and take the fight to those who hate life.
May God have have mercy on us all.
Mick Malkemus says
The root cause has already been determined.
Bin Laden and company warned the US, that unless they got their military bases out of the “Holy Land” of Saudi Arabia, there would be hell to pay.
The US left the military bases, and 9/11 eventually was the result.
MS, psych of terrorism
More Ham Ed says
It has somethin’ to do with the unholy ko ‘ran and too few ham sandwiches.
Mubarak says
Islam is an ideology that readily and willingly lends itself to people with envy and hatred and resentment feelings as a justification for violence, terror, revenge and retaliation.
There is no sermon on the mount in Islam and above all no Cross, which is THE antidote to these human, all too human characteristics of the unfree human spirit.
An evil heart in disguise meets an evil religion in disguise and the union of the two spells disaster for a society.
A good heart that meets Islam is thoroughly embarrassed.
mortimer says
Comment for Sanders: “IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID.’
WorkingClassPost says
Looking at those quotes from the koran, raises a point that has concerned me for some time.
When we translate the Arab texts, we should clarify the term ‘unbeliever’.
To us in the West, especially Christians, an unbeliever is someone who believes in nothing, rather than one who believes in something different, i.e. another religion.
By allowing ourselves to be called unbelievers, we being inaccurate and also do our cause no justice, e.g. the translation of 9:123 should read:-
“O believers in what i say, fight the people who do not believe in me and lala ….”
They hate us precisely because we mostly do believe in God, justice and everything else that is right and proper, even our most committed atheists generally have a greater humanity and sense of right and wrong than what moham and lala pretend.
Kepha says
The trouble with our so-called “unbelievers” in the West is that they believe way too much from too many sources–including the meme that Islam is peaceful.
notaluvvie says
So Sanders is a socialist and stupid. Oops, that’s tautology.
Jaladhi says
OK, dum, dum, you don’t know the root cause of 9/11!! The root cause is Islam, stupid!
Singh the Sikh says
Chew on this for a ‘root cause’ you senile old fart:
How Saudi Arabia undermines the US:
http://nypost.com/2016/04/16/how-saudi-arabia-undermines-the-united-states/
Westman says
Our potential leaders are caught up in the orgies of capitalist/consumerism, media “circus” entertainment, or too comfortable to desire the discomfort, risk, and media skewering of political life.
So, instead of leaders we get thick-skinned power-seeking personalities, professional politicians, who claw their way into national office and only retire when forced by rules, circumstance, or age.
In a nutshell, our national politicians aren’t asked to run for office; they seek it. By the time the few “candidates”, out of 245 Million adults, are in the news, the average citizen has not participated in any way to select them.
We only get a choice for POTUS among politicians who have already been funded by economic and social interests that intend to extract benefits. We see the corrupt “club” of national figures doing everything possible to derail Trump because he is an outsider with “unapproved” ideas that threaten the safety of their power and position at the trough.
In truth, the office of POTUS has degraded over a century until it is now a mouse riding the bloated bureaucracy elephant. The current candidates won’t be selected by their party unless they fit the saddle of the elephantine bureaucracy, and Trump doesn’t fit. So we’ll get more of the same, “leadership”.
Shmooviyet says
Whatever it is, he’s been smoking it since the 1960s or 70s. That’s too many decades of breaking down brain cells to be involved in any type of governance. He is truly frightening.
RightStuff44 says
Are socialists really stupid, or is it just an act to forward their Hegelian dialect in order to expedite the end of civilization???
Sam says
Sanders, Hillary will always blame America and Israel. That is how they keep their job as politicians. Sanders probably believes %100 in communism. Hillary is a power hungry liar. Both will not accept that Islam is the problem. The reason of their belief in untruth is irrelevant. They are very dangerous to freedom.
If they could see Islam as the problem or accept this fact they would be out of business.
What is scary is they have a majority of Americans believing in them. We are doomed
davious says
Worth remembering most of the attackers where college educated, from middle-class homes with good jobs.
SpiritOf1683 says
If poverty was the root cause, why wasn’t it Bolivians or Zimbabweans or Haitians who carried out the 9/11 atrocity? Those who carried it out were wealthy, and we knoww exactly what the root cause was – Islam – the same root cause behind Vienna, Lepanto, Tours and hundreds of other wars waged against the infidel over the last 14 centuries.
D says
Once again Sanders has proven he is even less qualified to be president than Clinton and Obama. And here I thought that was impossible.
Tony46 says
Practicing evil is a choice.
Nothing to do with climate change or level of income, Bunny.
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Kepha says
Mickey, I don’t know where you’re from, but we “poor Yanks” merely voted into office people who appeal to the average among us. If 9/11 didn’t wake us up–and I speak as one who followed up by studying up on Islam and learned a lot of things I’d rather not have learned–it will probably take the daughter or niece (real one; not a trannie) of some liberal news editor being raped by a gang of “cultural enrichers” or far worse. I am preparing to vote for Mr. Cruz in one of our primaries–but I fear we’ll probably end up with Male Vanity Hairdooooo versus Shrillary Shroooooo (what is our country coming to?)
Regards from Uncle Kepha.
Florida Jim says
Had Bill Clinton killed Osama Bin Laden on any of the three times Clinton was armed with CPS targets and positive identifications 9-11 would not have taken place. Thank the coward Bill Clinton. To verify this check out Sandy Berger’s trial where he broke into a secure government agency and left with important papers smuggled out in his pant legs.Bill Clinton was being impeached at the time neglecting his job and our safety. More Clinton means more dastardly deeds to be covered up by slimy friends like Terry McAuliffe., Huma Abadin Susan Rice.
Paul Clark says
‘Brain Freeze’ Bernie has spent too many winters in Vermont and too much time on the fence between the Marxists and the Democrats to not know that Socialism and Democracy is an oxymoron. He lies to himself and the mushy brains that buy into his Marxist lies. The musy brains are scary people,.