Former MSNBC Host Blames Western Terror Attacks on U.S. Relationship with Saudi Arabia

Curtis Houck | November 14, 2015
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Opining on HBO’s Real Time on Friday’s Islamic terror attacks in Paris, former MSNBC host and liberal activist Dylan Ratigan explained that the reason Islamist extremists despise the United States and Western Civilization (and thus carry out attacks) is due to U.S. “financ[ing] the capital flow into Saudi Arabia” that cause poor Muslims to commit such atrocities against innocent people in the West.

Host Bill Maher kicked off the panel discussion with Ratigan, Jay Leno, and MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele by asking a question that arguably all of those affected by Islamic extremists have been wondering for decades: “I'm going to ask this question what we asked after 9/11 because I still don't think we know the answer. Why do they hate us?”