Shamima Begum; Safiya Zaynab, Shabina Aslam, and Alireza Sabar; Mohammed Ali; and now Hoda Muthana. The establishment media is now embarked upon an all-out campaign to compel Western countries to accept returning Islamic State jihadis. This is just more evidence of how insidious the establishment media really is.
Hoda Muthana should never be allowed back in. She joined an entity that is avowedly at war with the United States and has repeatedly called upon Muslims in the U.S. to murder American civilians. But so many American authorities are so clueless and compromised today that they will probably fall for this.
By the way, ABC doesn’t bother to mention it, but her lawyer, Hassan Shibly, is a Hamas-linked CAIR operative. Note also that ABC identifies her as an “Alabama mother,” as if she were just another Emmylou Harris in a hijab, when in reality she has committed treason and called for the murder of Americans.
“Alabama mother begs to return to US, says moving to Syria and marrying ISIS fighters was ‘a big mistake,'” by Enjoli Francis, Desiree Adib, Josh Margolin and Morgan Winsor, ABC News, February 19, 2019:
With U.S.-backed forces closing in on ISIS in Syria, young mother Hoda Muthana is pleading for a second chance and the opportunity to return home to her family in Alabama.
“I realized I’ve made a big mistake and I know I’ve ruined my future and my son’s future and I deeply, deeply regret it,” she said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.
Muthana is one of 1,500 foreign women and children living in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.
Muthana’s family lawyer, Hassan Shibly, told ABC News the young mother was “brainwashed” by ISIS and now feels “tremendous remorse.”
“This is a young, vulnerable woman who was brainwashed and manipulated by monsters who took advantage of her,” Shibly said in an interview that airs on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday morning. “Hooda is absolutely disgusted by the person she became while under the spell.”…
Muthana, who now has an 18-month-old son, left Alabama four years ago at the age of 19. She spread ISIS propaganda online, calling for attacks on Americans.
According to AL.com, she tweeted messages encouraging people to “‘spill American blood.”…
In a letter obtained exclusively by ABC News, she described herself as a “naive, angry and arrogant” young woman when she set out for Syria. Muthana said she thought she understood her religious beliefs and had stopped listening to her family.
“That was a big mistake,” she said in the letter.
“During my years in Syria I would see and experience a way of life and the terrible effects of war which changed me. Seeing bloodshed up close changed me. Motherhood changed me. Seeing friends, children and the men I married dying changed me. Seeing how different a society could be compared to the beloved America I was born and raised into changed me,” she said.
“Being where I was and seeing the ppl around me scared me because I realized I didn’t want to be a part of this. My beliefs weren’t the same as theirs. In my quiet moments, in between bombings, starvation, cold and fear I would look at my beautiful little boy and know that I didn’t belong here and neither did he. I would think sometimes of my family, my friends and the life that I knew and I realized how I didn’t appreciate or maybe even really understand how important the freedoms that we have in America are. I do now. To say that I regret my past words, any pain that I caused my family and any concerns I would cause my country would be hard for me to really express properly.”…
Muthana’s family lawyer told ABC News she wants to return to the United States to be “accountable for her choices,” and to hopefully be a powerful voice to ensure that others don’t repeat the mistakes she made.
“She wants to make amends by doing her best to speak out and ensure that she can protect other young individuals being brainwashed and taken advantage of in the same way she has,” Shibly said in the interview on “GMA.” “She’s willing to risk her life right now to condemn ISIS.”
Rosie Barnes says
Interestingly, the Muslim-majority school in East London that Shamima Begum and her two friends attended was visited four years ago by a very famous political wife, who told the students that they had to to face people who need to “see beyond the headscarf”. Who? Michelle Obama.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama/11677903/Michelle-Obama-in-London.html
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link. No surprise.
JM says
I remember that visit. I also remember Michelle Obama assuring the girls that they could be: “anything you want to be!” Yeah, right! She ought to have re-phrased that as: “anything your parents/the future husband they will have chosen from among your cousins for you/your religion/the Qu’ran want(s) you to be!”
It would have been more honest and more accurate.
Giacomo Latta says
Yes indeed. Just beyond the headscarf is the koran, the manual that tells you who to hate and how to kill them.
Peter says
Risking her live by condemning ISIS,…….sounds like the “post-war resitance” to me….
mortimer says
Obviously, ISIS has sent everyone back home to continue the fight against the “NEAR ENEMY”.
DOCTRINE OF THE NEAR ENEMY: Koran 9:123 – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”
Egyptian jihad theoretician Muhammad abd al-Salam Faraj wrote in “The Neglected Duty” (Al Faridah al Ghaibah) about the necessity of attacking the ‘near enemy’ first in order to create a strong Islamic base from which to attack the ‘far enemy’. (Al Qaeda means ‘the base’.)
Jihadists have theorized about the issue of first attacking the ‘near enemy’ (adou al-qareeb) versus the far enemy (adou al bayeed) in order to remove jahiliyya (non-Islamic thought) and create an Islamic state based on Islamic ideology from which they may attack the ‘far enemy’.
WPM says
If an American 19 year old women when to Germany in 1942 to marry some Nazi who ran a concentration camp and help with the rounding up of Jews in countries the Nazis invaded would we welcome her back with open arms 4 years later? Choose badly in life changing decisions as an adult you face the consequences. If she is willing to face a firing squad for treason and war crimes,I would allow her back .I am sure many Germans that committed war crimes against civilian populations regret it after the Germans lost the war. If you support a terrorist group then leave America to help its members even it is just cooking ,cleaning, being a willing bride to jihad criminals you lost your right to be an American citizen.
Stacy Girl says
Mike Pompeo just said NO.
gravenimage says
Good to hear, Stacy Girl.
Kepha says
In the hypothetical case you mention, the American girl would’ve been arrested by the American Military Government and tried for treason, unless she had renounced her US citizenship.
Hoda Muthana is a US citizen under the 14th Amendment. The way our laws stand, we have to accept her back in (provided she can get herself back here)–although this does not preclude the FBI waiting on the tarmac with warrant, handcuffs, and paddy wagon.
gravenimage says
Was she born here or naturalized? If the latter, her having joined an enemy state is reason enough to strip her American citizenship.
Emilie Green says
Every Muslim, even the ones who are described as “peaceful, the best neighbors you could ever have,” carry inside the Sudden Jihad Syndrome gene. SJS happens when your everyday, run-of-the-mill Muslim suddenly realizes that the stuff he/she is reading about in their Qur’an really does mean what it says – you know, like “kill the unbeliever whenever you find him” – and takes it to heart.
Trust a Muslim to be a Muslim, and act accordingly.
mortimer says
Emilie, you are very close … every Muslims is required to hate the kafir ‘for the sake of Allah’. That means that Muslims can pretend to be friendly, but never really be your friend. No kafir is likely to be invited into a Muslim home.
Muslims who take a kafir as a close friend may even after years turn on the kafir, because it is required by Islam to hate kafirs and show hostility to them.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
“There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and hate the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
Diane Harvey says
What is al Walaa wal Baraa? Short video – fun, simple, clear. Kids understand Islam in just 9 fun minutes. Adults too,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsN5lvu1SZk
elee says
Thanks Mortimer for your highly informed Comment. Just one thing to add for emphasis…..remember when ISIS swept into the borderlands between Syria and Iraq couple of years ago? Folks there had lived with some semblance of tolerance and coexistence for centuries….neighbours had friendships across sectarian lines dating back for generations…..and….when the Muslims swept in their local brothers denounced their Christian and Yazidi neighbours….who got taken out and shot if they were men or enslaved if not?
Every Muslim is a sleeper. This stuff is a deep and seductive hateful poison. Recognize evil when you see it, dormant or otherwise. And become aware of enough of their culture to catch at least a portion of the wakeup signals they broadcast. Do not believe that a pious Muslim is permitted to be your friend. His scripture tells him over and over to kill you. And you never get to know when he will renew his faith with your blood.
thebigW says
The thing about SJS Sudden Jihad Syndrome is that it’s only “sudden” to us because we thought they weren’t doing stealth jihad all along while they were pretending to be moderate.
warren nicodemus says
Well said, Emilie .
somehistory says
“Oh poor me! I have made a big bad booboo and now I want to come home and talk about it.”
She is a moslim. Her “lawyer” is a moslim. How can anyone trust either of them?
“To say that I regret my past words, any pain that I caused my family and any concerns I would cause my country would be hard for me to really express properly.””
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She has taken herself off the hook with this line. She just can’t “express properly” …”any concerns” she would “cause (her) country”…
She wanted our blood spilled. She joined a terror group…which is a **crime***…and now she just wants to talk. Will she stand trial for her crime, or just be allowed to go back to her family and maybe do Paid interviews on television?
Her little boy is a victim and she is a criminal. And one question for her: How many “men” did she marry?
Kish says
Nowhere in the letter does she say she no longer is a Muslim nor that she is now ready to condemn Mohammed for inspiring ISIS. With those items missing she is not really changed, but is just saying whatever leftists want to hear and maybe allow her back to the USA. It’s just enough lying to appease the west and little enough not to offended Islam. Hopefully her request will either be denied or she will be prosecuted for treason upon return.
Ren says
She wants to come back to “spill American blood”.
Terry Gain says
Polygamy is incompatible with 21st century notions of religion. As is Jihad.
PRCS says
To you and me, it is.
Terry Gain says
All of those who have committed treason should receive a fair trial. Before execution.
myshariamoor says
@Terry … Agreed!
FYI says
The Soviets were masters at that:”Comrade,you must be given a fair trial before your summary execution.But don’t worry,after your death, you will receive a posthumous Hero Of the Soviet Union medal”
Jihadists to be executed should always be given a last meal:bacon and beer.
Treason was once a serious crime…and it should be considered as such.Of course many pro-mass islamic immigration leftie politicians would have to be prosecuted….
thebigW says
It ain’t treason, since they ain’t really part of the West. They’re enemy combatants. Did we give Nazis a trial before we fought them?
TommyS says
The Alabama pig made her bed so leave her in it. She is not wanted in this nation
TimC says
How much leniency is granted depends on a) whether she is willing to renounce not just ISIS/”radical” Islam (no such thing) or actually leave Islam entirely, and b) how vocal she is willing to be about how wrong Islam actually is, the things she saw, how dumb she was, etc. If she’s still Muslim and is just trying to get back in the US after being young and dumb and is not willing to follow through, then whoops…. (a) is unfortunately sticky since we have freedom of religion (doubtful the FF really understood Islam, or figured the Crusades had basically worked).
And even then, we need a lot more voices like that. The people that don’t want to believe it’s really like that, will continue to refuse to do so. Observe, for example, how many “intellectuals” dismissed Ayn Rand’s _We The Living_ saying “it’s not really like that.”
mortimer says
What is the difference between ‘A MISTAKE’ and ‘WAR CRIMES’???
Muthana said she thought she understood her religious beliefs and had stopped listening to her family.
“That was a big mistake,” she said in the letter.
Shoplifting at Walmart is ‘A MISTAKE’ … committing ‘WAR CRIMES’ and ‘TERRORISM’ is classified as ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’. The Auschwitz staff got 20 years or the death sentence.
Or Else! says
Just like the others…she wouldn’t be “sorry” and asking to “come home” if her ISIS contingent in Syria wasn’t on the brink of being defeated and dissolved.
Western countries’ leaderships have to adopt “FOOL ME ONCE!” legislation. There are existing laws for such things…and those laws should NOT be skirted….or “veiled”….
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Peter WF says
She is conveniently sorry.
infidel says
So when Jehaad did not go as expected and American blood could not be spilled the way she wanted… now she wants to come home… who knows . maybe to spill the blood of unsuspecting American neighbors.. Shameless creature.. Put her entire family in prison..
infidel says
So easy for her… Do jehaad whenever she fancies…. spew hatred and now come back as if nothing has happened… Only Muslims are capable of such flips. They have no honor.
elee says
Astute and perceptive Comments infidel. In Islam a millennium or two of western thought simply doesn’t exist—-and the lessons the west learned here, through the Inquisition and the Thirty Years’ War and, well you get the idea…..correspond to nothing Islamic. In Islam the model is the relationship of a slave to his master: the slave does no thinking for himself, makes no decisions for himself, and feels only what Allah tells him to feel. Koran 81:30; 5:102. So asking a Muslim to deliberate, choose values, form an opinion, guide one’s conduct by consciously chosen precepts…….is like showing movies to a blind man. Read Hannah Arendt about how the fascist chooses to be less than a fully reasoning and responsible human and takes a form of comfort in exemption from ethical responsibility. That’s what Islam did for a couple millennia while the west invented modern civilisation, which they are quite candid about wanting to destroy.
Kepha says
Ms. Muthana clearly is undesirable as a neighbor, and at least was a virulent supporter of a virulent enemy of the USA. Were she merely a green card holder, we could permanently exclude her. But as US law stands, we have to take you back regardless, if you are a citizen. Ms. Muthana was born in the US, and is a citizen under the definition put forth in the 14th Amendment. However, returning to the USA does not preclude the FBI waiting on the tarmac with warrants, handcuffs, and a paddy wagon; and a trial for treason further on.
PRCS says
Young American mom who married ISIS fighters begs to return to US
“i don’t have the ideology anymore”
Oh, yes, she does. The ideology is Islam.
And, despite the snake oil Shibly is trying to sell (6:48) she certainly doesn’t come across as being disgusted by what she did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVH7sTfe8u0
elee says
She says she’s “a normal human being” I hope to hell that she and a billion and a half Muslims are wrong. She is no part of any “norm” I want in my world. Wanna go fight the west and kill infidels, well, I guess we couldn’t stop her. Wanna say king’s x afterward and go hang at the mall again? Bullsh!t, go back and step over the icky-poo dead infidels your “husbands” created and eat the grass of paradise. You decided that “Allah will provide.” Enjoy Allah’s feast.
FYI says
All that’s missing from that photo is a fluffy little kitten with an eyepatch and a broken paw
Perhaps it is the photographic equivalent of islamic dissembling.
No doubt the Lefties will be crying “islamophobia”,”Stop racism” but…
She revealed her violent hatred of the West:she doesn’t belong in the West.
I heard Somalia is desperate for “cultural enrichment” of the islamic kind….they could surely do with more muslims and lefties in their islamic paradise.
Rarely says
If she is allowed to return to the U.S. she should be prosecuted for the things she did (e.g. “Death to Americans” tweets, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, etc.) and not simply because she is “still a muslim”.
She may have been more naïve than evil but that can be taken into account during sentencing.
Here in Canada I expect the punishment would be mandatory attendance at a “Canada is Great” workshop one evening a month for 6 months (gov’t provided transportation and babysitting, of course) while she is receiving a generous allowance and free housing. I wish I was kidding but it probably won’t be far from that — even for returning male ISIS front line fighters.
gravenimage says
Muslima from Alabama who called on Muslims to “spill American blood” and joined ISIS is sorry, wants to come back
…………………..
Never let her back in.
PRCS says
As I currently understand this: she was born in New Jersey–to foreign diplomats–about which Pompeo said–today:
Hoda Muthana not a U.S. citizen, says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/hoda-muthana-not-a-us-citizen-says-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo.html
Still kinda murky.
gravenimage says
Thanks, PRCS.
ConnectingDots says
Imagine if the U.S. were to tell her that she must abandon her hijab and that being caught wearing it or a niqab or a burqa means automatic expulsion from the USA.
If she were to agree to that, then “Maybe we can talk.”
I doubt that she would go for that because I doubt that she has abandoned Islam.
Or Else! says
I heard that Pompeo said NO.
Cue the Left’s outrage and calls of more “racism” against the Trump administration.
Or Else! says
Apologies to “Stacy Girl” above, who earlier reported Pompeo’s decision.
tim gallagher says
What a strange world we live in. This Muslim woman says she wanted to “spill American blood” and now she asks to be taken back into America. It is so strange that there is actually a chance that the country is considering taking her back into the country where there is so much American blood she can spill. But, of course, she says she is now a totally changed person. Now she loves America and Americans and the American way of life. Now it’s her “beloved America”. Like many of the commenters up above, I don’t believe her and I’m sure she is now pretending that she has changed because ISIS is about to be completely defeated. I hope she is kept out of America. It’s the only way to keep Americans safe.
Rotten Eye says
The Muslim apologist will decry that if America does not take her back, then this lack of compassionwill incite many more Muslim to radicalize. This warped and sick logic is why we do not need any Muslims in America. A normal human would learn from this that the there are consequences for your deeds, and you must take responsibility for your sins.
tim gallagher says
I agree with your comment, Rotten Eye. Personally, I never believe what any Muslim tells us. I think they lie endlessly to us, the hated infidels. I agree with your opinion that America doesn’t need any Muslims. I believe no non-Muslim country should let the Muslim enemy in. I live in Australia and we have the same problems with Islam that every country foolish enough to let Muslims in has to endure. It’s the same trouble everywhere with parts of Europe seeming to be the worst. Every country should have woken up by now.
gravenimage says
Yes, Rotten Eye–we’ve heard this twisted argument before–that the only thing that causes Jihad is any defense against it.
Rotten Eye says
This is FANTASTIC!
She can be made an EXAMPLE of what not to do!!
Muthana’s family lawyer told ABC News she wants to return to the United States to be “accountable for her choices,” and to hopefully be a powerful voice to ensure that others don’t repeat the mistakes she made.
Well, what better way to be accountable for your choices and be a powerful voice than to do your accounting in that shit hole over there and bellowing and crying until the cows come home.What an excellent story to tell all the other Islamic Terrorists Wannabes.That will give you something to do for the rest of your pitiful life.
And recall what it says in the Bible – the sins of the father are inherited by his sons and daughters.
And what does the Koran say about that?
Choice America says
Old news,…not going to happen in America.
GrumpyMel says
If she is a citizen let her in and arrest her for treason. If she is truly repentent about her past, she can make up for it by doing anti-ISIS work from prison and cooperating with authorities. If she spends say ten years doing that legitimately and genuinely and is able to truly prove she’s reformed… we can consider letting her out on parole.
Unlike our enemy, we believe in mercy and redemption and the ability for people to make stupid mistakes….and get a second chance IF they’ve paid for them. But the burden is on them to prove they’ve truly changed…. not just claim it….. and that requires accountability and restitution.
P.S. The kid on the other hand, shouldn’t have to suffer for the sins of his parents….
Ed says
So sad she made that bad choice. But she made that choice on her own and now must pay the price. She has an opportunity now to change the country she went to fight for into a peaceful nation that respects all life and religions as equals. She choose not to do that hear, but to spread hate she now has a chance to stand up for America in her new home county, but she won’t do that.
patriotliz says
All I can see in this Muslima begging to return to America is that scene from the Exorcist where the demon- possessed little girl pretends to be Father Karras’ mother “Why do you do this to me Dimi?” The demon is a deceiver. Victimhood jihad. All Muslims need an exorcism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxloaEhwzPA