She was “radicalized via the Internet after she left high school, abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.” Has anyone investigated and verified that her family and her mosque actually teach “moderate Islamic views”? Or is everyone just taking their word for it? Why was all the moderation that she learned from her family and at the mosque not able to withstand the appeal of the Internet radicalizers? Why don’t mosques in the U.S. have any programs to teach young Muslims why they should reject this understanding of Islam?
More on this story. “‘Spill All of Their Blood…Kill Them’: How a Suburban American Girl Hatched an Elaborate Plan to Flee Her Family and Join the Islamic State,” by Billy Hallowell, The Blaze, April 21, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A business student from Alabama whose family came to America decades ago to build a better life abruptly abandoned her loved ones and fled to Syria to join the Islamic State last November, with the startling details of her story shocking her suburban community.
Hoda Muthana, 20, of Hoover, Alabama, graduated high school in 2013 and went on to study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, before executing an elaborate plan to secretly leave for Syria, according to BuzzFeed.
“It seems bizarre just because she was so quiet and kind of kept to herself,” Jordan LaPorta, who graduated high school with Muthana, told AL.com. “But we’ve kind of learned over the years that sometimes it’s people just like that who are most susceptible to extremist groups.”
The unsuspecting young woman was reportedly radicalized via the Internet after she left high school, abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.
Her official joining with the Islamic State came after she told her father that she would be taking a school trip to Atlanta.
But rather than go to Georgia, she reportedly traveled to Syria, instead, where she connected with the terror group and married a jihadist after just one month; less than three months later, her new husband died on the battlefield, though that hasn’t dissuaded her from perpetuating the Islamic State’s mission.
In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Muthana, whose parents came to the U.S. from Yemen in 1992 before the birth of their children, spoke out about her decision to join the Islamic State and to leave her life in the U.S. behind.
“I started getting interested in my deen [religious life] around 2012,” she told BuzzFeed in an interview conducted over the messaging service Kik. “I felt like my life was so bland without it. Life has much more meaning when u know why ur here.”
It was through watching online lectures that her religious views began to transform, with her use of social media perpetuating an alternative persona — one that at least one source said was more extreme than Muthana actually was in person.
This intensified after she joined Twitter in 2013, as she began spreading hateful messages and encountering Islamic State members.
After orchestrating an elaborate plan to register for classes and immediately withdraw, Muthana used the money she would have paid to her university to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State. Since leaving, her father, Mohammad, has repeatedly begged her to come home, telling BuzzFeed that he immediately contacted the FBI when he realized that she had left to join the Islamic State.
“I want to apologize for what my daughter did,” he told the outlet. “I believe [she’s] been brainwashed. She’s not that kind of girl. They brainwashed her.”
Muthana said that she has no plans to return home and that she is happy that she joined the radical extremist group, despite her family’s desperate pleas. Joining the Islamic State, she believes, is in accordance with the true version of the Islamic faith.
“I’m not going to come back,” she texted her father upon his request for her to return home. “This is the right place for me to live and I am really ready to die, to meet my God as a true Muslim.”
Muthana’s Twitter messages on her now-suspended account @ZamuraIJannah show her terrifying level of devotion to the Islamic State, as she encouraged Muslims in America to “terrorize” non-believers, according to BuzzFeed.
“Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping!” she wrote on March 19. “Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades..go on drive by’s + spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n drive all over them. Kill them.”
Mohammad fears for his family’s safety in Alabama, though he said he also worries for his other children — that they will not be able to get jobs and that he and his wife will be blamed for his daughter’s actions….
Ah, so he is already claiming victimhood and turning the discussion to talk of “backlash.” That was fast.
mortimer says
Does the mosque use the same Koran, same hadiths, same Sira, same canonical commentaries, same Sharia law? Then it must be the same version of Islam.
I don’t see a difference between Soddy Barbarian beheadings or stonings and ISIS beheadings or stonings…do you?
Almost no Muslims believe Bronze-Age Sharia punishments are ‘extreme’.
Muslims are not compatible with modernity.
noellsq says
This is a big problem and the parents already are complaining that they might be a victim too. Well I am sorry for them but their Mosque should be investigated but not by Holder’s office which is totally corrupt. The parents and the family should be put on watch and if found to be connected to terrorist acts they should be punished.
gravenimage says
noellsq wrote:
This is a big problem and the parents already are complaining that they might be a victim too
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No reason to feel sorry for them, noellsq—no one will harm them. This is textbook—whenever any Jihadist commits or threatens violence, the Muslim “community” starts wringing their hands and moaning that they are going to suffer some mythical “backlash”.
This immediately deflects attention from the threat itself, and both gives Infidels an unearned sense of guilt as they worry that they might be as violent as the Jihadists, and also changes the issue from concern over Muslim violence to the Kuffar earnestly assuring Muslims that we will do everything to protect them =.
They go through this ugly and predictable song and dance *every time*.
noellsq says
as a non muslim i could give a sh-t about them. I am tired of reading that this government official so and so is kissing their ass. I live in rural america and let them f–k with my flag or apple pie and they will get theirs. Fu-k the racist POTUS and his wet behind the years minions. They are destroying this country with their fancies. We need back lash.
somehistory says
From the article: The unsuspecting young woman
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Unsuspecting? She was caught off guard, not suspecting what she was up to, what she was planning, what she was writing on *social media*? How is that possible?
Firebug says
Maybe I should stop using the internet. I’ve been online for 19 years, radicalisation is imminent.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Firebug. You’re right—the idea that someone passible “becomes radicalized” on-line is just ridiculous.
noellsq says
not really I use to like all religions now i hate radical muslims
mortimer says
‘They’ brainwashed her. Right. And normative Islam isn’t ‘brainwashing’.
JamesonRocks says
“Mohammad fears for his family’s safety in Alabama, though he said he also worries for his other children — that they will not be able to get jobs and that he and his wife will be blamed for his daughter’s actions….”
1. Perhaps the Feds should intervene and ship all their butts back to the homeland in order to ensure nothing adverse happens to them here in the USA. This should help with the father’s concerns… 😉
2. Relative to the parents being blamed for their daughter’s actions, I am reminded of one of my father’s favorite sayings, “You’re only as good a parent as your worst child.”
duh_swami says
abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.
Islam is Islam, is Islam…depending on the meaning of ‘is’…There is no such thing as moderate, or extreme Islam…But the readers here already know that…
Alissa says
I don’t give a rat’s *ss about this wench or her deluded family. I look at her and think “if she had her way she would kill me and my family.” She’s the enemy…..whether those nauseating sanctimonious liberal idiots who are enabling the destruction of our society……want to recognize it or not.
mortimer says
She wants to kill us as vermin…probably her family would agree. All Muslims see the kafirs as vermin who don’t deserve to live.
Moderate muslim and the trojan horse says
This “moderate” muslim argument is getting ridiculous. There are no “moderate muslims” – they either believe that their prophet has made them the chosen great people and that everyone else is vile and should be killed or they don’t. All these beliefs are in the Koran, so when they say “moderate” it just means they aren’t willing to carry out the attacks that their “holy book” tells them to- they still believe in the same stuff though if they are labelled as a muslim, so really this is the biggest trojan horse of history to start labelling them “moderate muslims”.
They all hate unbelievers and they all want a muslim world. They are all have evil thoughts whether we want to believe it or not…this is when we need someone like Ben Affleck from the Film Actors Guild to set us on the right path. He has an immense understanding of the Islamic religion.
Sam says
Poor little Muslima! Of course the whole family and the Moslem community did have nothing to do with this. Let’s not discriminate these “moderate” Moslems so they can cut our throat when they reach a certain % of the population under the orders of their peaceful book called Koran.
How much more America will take before we start closing these mosques where they breed hate for the hand feeding them? Day in day out.. Enough is enough.
noellsq says
It will never happen even thou we see the world being dominated by these animals,since the POTUS is seemingly anti-American and pro Muslim. He should be removed from office as a traitor.
abad says
Yep Obama needs to be impeached
Susan says
Not impeached but arrested for treason.
Alissa says
Even if he was removed from office, it wouldn’t help. The American useful idiot liberals will vote in “the first women president” (gosh we’re just so wonderful) muslima clinton and it will be more of the same dhimmi appeasement to the monsters and treachery to the US as obama demonstrated for 8 years. The US is doomed unless there is a serious uprising of the American people on the scale of the French Revolution.
David says
A perfect example to prove that beauty is only skin deep.
mortimer says
Well said!
This is a face that hides hatred of the ‘other’, misogyny, atrocities and backwardness.
abad says
Let her go to Syria already. Better for her to be over there than here in the USA
Renee says
It sounds like she would really like to be here, here she can kill, there she can only spread her legs.
terry says
Renee, what you said may sound funny but it’s true and precise!
Ashley says
Why is this story just now surfacing? Where did her parents think their daughter was after she vanished in November, 2014?
Chris says
Western societies are committing suicide through enabled infiltration and inaction / “leading from behind” by the political class.
mortimer says
This is the deceptive face of jihad, the deceptive face of taqiyya, the smiling face hiding the brutality and supremacism of Sharia law.
This is the face Muslims present to the dirty kafirs as they plot ways to betray and slaughter them.
MOST jihadists become RADICALIZED at Islamic STUDY GROUPS.
By making all ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS illegal, the authorities can reduce the number of jihadists…but that won’t happen, will it?
Benedict says
Its very simple, there are no moderate thinking Muslims and if they want to be different they should be sent back to their country of origin, though they may be fourth or fifth generation American. There can be no difference among the people. Laws have to be made to get rid to these kind of people
Charli Main says
@ benedict
“though they may be fourth or fifth generation American.”
But that is PRECISELY THE POINT, BENEDICT !!!!!!
Regardless of how long these Muslims have lived in America ( or elsewhere in Dar al Harb ) they will NEVER be Americans. They will NEVER adopt or adapt to the culture and society that has given them a home. Islam forbids Muslims to integrate into other societies.
The ” Hug a Muslim ” brigade just refuse to admit that Muslims don´t migrate for a better life, they migrate to TAKE OVER and change the culture and society of the host country, to Islamic under Sharia Law.
BC says
The kamikaze instinct, their blood lust and their eagerness to make their (alleged) ‘god’ is all they have going for them but it makes very dangerous.
Gordon Miller says
There are no so-called moderate Muslims. To be a Muslim, you must follow the Qur’an and I’m sure by now most of you know what that means.
john says
We all know that mohammed was a peadofile….that’s a given. And his other orders. .given later in life are seriously just to create havoc for the world left behind. …why should any one give two…….hoots
gravenimage says
Alabama Muslima who joined Islamic State exhorts Muslims: “Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood…Kill them”
She was “radicalized via the Internet after she left high school, abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.
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Who else is sick of this crap? You don’t become “radicalized” in the same way that your computer can catch a virus—you have to be looking for it.
More:
”Has anyone investigated and verified that her family and her mosque actually teach “moderate Islamic views”? Or is everyone just taking their word for it? Why was all the moderation that she learned from her family and at the mosque not able to withstand the appeal of the Internet radicalizers? Why don’t mosques in the U.S. have any programs to teach young Muslims why they should reject this understanding of Islam?
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Good questions—that will never likely be asked. We’ve already seen identical cases where the parents turned out not to be so “moderate” after all…
Easier to blame the bad ol’ Kuffar internet than the Mosque or dear old mom and dad…
More:
More on this story. “‘Spill All of Their Blood…Kill Them’: How a Suburban American Girl Hatched an Elaborate Plan to Flee Her Family and Join the Islamic State”
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Of course, that “suburban American girl” was already a Muslimah…
More:
A business student from Alabama whose family came to America decades ago to build a better life abruptly abandoned her loved ones and fled to Syria to join the Islamic State last November, with the startling details of her story shocking her suburban community.
Hoda Muthana, 20, of Hoover, Alabama, graduated high school in 2013 and went on to study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, before executing an elaborate plan to secretly leave for Syria, according to BuzzFeed.
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She certainly doesn’t sound “deprived”, and had access to a good education at a state university. That didn’t serve as a deterrent, though…
More:
“It seems bizarre just because she was so quiet and kind of kept to herself,” Jordan LaPorta, who graduated high school with Muthana, told AL.com. “But we’ve kind of learned over the years that sometimes it’s people just like that who are most susceptible to extremist groups.”
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The usual—you can always find some neighbor or old classmate to spout the usual, “but he was so quiet and seemed nice” cliché…
More:
The unsuspecting young woman was reportedly radicalized via the Internet after she left high school, abandoning her family’s moderate Islamic views for the extremist brand of the faith that is embraced by the Islamic State.
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“Unsuspecting”? She was just passively blind-sided by *Internet Radicalization*, through no agency of her own…sarc/off
More:
Her official joining with the Islamic State came after she told her father that she would be taking a school trip to Atlanta.
But rather than go to Georgia, she reportedly traveled to Syria, instead, where she connected with the terror group and married a jihadist after just one month; less than three months later, her new husband died on the battlefield, though that hasn’t dissuaded her from perpetuating the Islamic State’s mission.
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Of course it hasn’t—these black widows *want* their husbands to “kill and be killed”—that is the whole point, just so long as they can knock up these Muslimahs before they go. After three months of seclusion, she’ll be married off to some other Jihadist.
More:
In a recent interview with BuzzFeed, Muthana, whose parents came to the U.S. from Yemen in 1992 before the birth of their children, spoke out about her decision to join the Islamic State and to leave her life in the U.S. behind.
“I started getting interested in my deen [religious life] around 2012,” she told BuzzFeed in an interview conducted over the messaging service Kik. “I felt like my life was so bland without it. Life has much more meaning when u know why ur here.”
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Yeah—life has more meaning when you dedicate it to murdering unbelievers…
More:
It was through watching online lectures that her religious views began to transform, with her use of social media perpetuating an alternative persona — one that at least one source said was more extreme than Muthana actually was in person.
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It’s not as though she was playing a role—the more “extreme” persona was her, as well.
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This intensified after she joined Twitter in 2013, as she began spreading hateful messages and encountering Islamic State members.
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More ridiculous blaming of Infidel technology. For most people, joining Twitter does not cause “extremism”.
More:
After orchestrating an elaborate plan to register for classes and immediately withdraw, Muthana used the money she would have paid to her university to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State. Since leaving, her father, Mohammad, has repeatedly begged her to come home, telling BuzzFeed that he immediately contacted the FBI when he realized that she had left to join the Islamic State.
“I want to apologize for what my daughter did,” he told the outlet. “I believe [she’s] been brainwashed. She’s not that kind of girl. They brainwashed her.”
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And how would that work? It’s not like she was held hostage. She sought this out.
More:
Muthana said that she has no plans to return home and that she is happy that she joined the radical extremist group, despite her family’s desperate pleas. Joining the Islamic State, she believes, is in accordance with the true version of the Islamic faith.
“I’m not going to come back,” she texted her father upon his request for her to return home. “This is the right place for me to live and I am really ready to die, to meet my God as a true Muslim.”
Muthana’s Twitter messages on her now-suspended account @ZamuraIJannah show her terrifying level of devotion to the Islamic State, as she encouraged Muslims in America to “terrorize” non-believers, according to BuzzFeed.
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And the obsession with death continues. I haven’t been about to find the meaning of “Zamural”, but “Jannah” is, of course, the Muslim “paradise”.
More:
“Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping!” she wrote on March 19. “Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades..go on drive by’s + spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n drive all over them. Kill them.”
Mohammad fears for his family’s safety in Alabama, though he said he also worries for his other children — that they will not be able to get jobs and that he and his wife will be blamed for his daughter’s actions….
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Yeah—right. Ignore the calls to kill Infidels, and put all your attention on protecting poor widdle Muslims from evil Kuffar “backlash”—never mind that this is all ginned up.
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Ah, so he is already claiming victimhood and turning the discussion to talk of “backlash.” That was fast.
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It was fast, but hardly surprising. This is what we *always* hear.
rick nash says
its time the world recognises that Mulims and Islam is a curse to our future generations.they do not need to leave thieir country if they do not like nonmuslims