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Alabama IS bride who praised the death of Americans, called for vehicular attacks “wants to come home”

May 7, 2019 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“An Alabama ISIS bride” wants to come home. Can we forgive her horrifying social media posts?” A better question is: should we overlook her impulse to destroy America and desire to murder its citizens?

Hoda Muthuna is another human rights abusing, hateful, indoctrinated, victimhood-manipulating Islamic State bride who wants to “come home”, after going to Syria to fight alongside her husband. Muthuna does not consider America “home” to begin with, but yet in her view, her family’s view, ther advocates’ view, America should welcome her and other Islamic State brides with open arms.  For years, Hoda Muthana from Alabama “used Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Ask.fm to spread the very messages ISIS used to inspire violence against America.”

The most significant question often asked about possible returning Islamic State brides is whether are “monsters, or victims?”  The answer to that question is that they are “monsters”. Logically, it behooves IS brides to present themselves as victims but the real victims are those who suffered at their hands and at the hands of their jihadist husbands.

Muthana “praised the deaths of Americans at ISIS’s hands and encouraged vehicular attacks worldwide. She encouraged horrific attacks that have killed thousands of people around the world — including dozens in the very nation she wants to call home once again.” Her presence in the West poses an obvious security risk.

Those who advocate for the return of Islamic State brides and their children advance the notion that citizenship is an entitlement. It is not. It is a responsibility. To seek the murder of innocent citizens of a country, to oppose its constitution and attempt to subvert its democracy should automatically render that person an enemy of the state.  Islamic State jihadists, their jihadist wives and indoctrinated children, for the sake of homeland security, should remain in or be sent back to the very country that they launched their jihad from. They should be prosecuted there.

“Her biggest obstacle now is that both the Obama and Trump administrations determined that she isn’t even a citizen of the United States”, after she fled Alabama to marry an IS fighter in Syria.  Her father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, “a former diplomat at the United Nations for Yemen” filed a lawsuit against Trump to overturn the decision to disown her as an American.

Unfortunately the likes of some bleeding heart liberals ‘tolerate’ the intolerable. Take for example, Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau,  who declared that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”, no matter what. His heart bleeds for the wrong people; not real victims but the perpetrators who pretend to be victims after they have victimized. Trudeau also fails to recognize the difference between a law-abiding, hard working, taxpaying citizen and a jihadist militant.

“An Alabama “ISIS Bride” Wants To Come Home. Can We Forgive Her Horrifying Social Media Posts?”, by Ellie Hall, BuzzFeed, May 4, 2019:

I started texting with Hoda Muthana April 5, 2015, when she was 20 and I was 26.

We were talking on Kik, a messaging service mostly used by dating app users looking to hook up — and jihadis looking to communicate. Muthana’s first question was how I’d found her. “I’m a journalist,” I told her. “I do my job well.”

“No ur not,” she replied. “Don’t get a big head.”

So I proved it to her, by sending her a smiling high school graduation photograph of herself. That’s when Muthana threatened me for the first time.

“If I see that photo online. I will get someone to kill you,” she texted me back.

At the time, Muthana was a curiosity, a shy American college girl turned “ISIS bride.” Now, she’s sitting in a Kurdish refugee camp with her son, Adam, who will turn 2 soon, begging to return to her homeland, the United States. She has become a symbol of a new debate about the young people — and, in particular, the women — who were radicalized by ISIS. Are they monsters, or victims? And more broadly, in this age of online radicalization, who has traveled beyond redemption? Who can be deradicalized, and who can be redeemed?

I don’t know the answers to those questions, but I do know Muthana better than most of the reporters asking them. I have spent nearly four years tracking Muthana, who fled her Hoover, Alabama, home in 2014 to join ISIS in Syria, across various social media platforms and communicating with her in private messages while she was a member of the brutal terror group.

When Muthana resurfaced earlier this year in the refugee camp, telling reporters she was wrong to join ISIS and that she now wants to return, several media outlets accompanied their stories with a handful of her old tweets calling for violence against Americans.

But her social media footprint is actually more vast and troubling, and I am reporting it here for the first time, and publishing alongside this story my archive of four years of Muthana’s life as she presented it on social media. I have saved posts of hers from various accounts on multiple platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and even Ask.fm. This unfiltered glimpse into her life with ISIS shows she relentlessly pushed the terror group’s ideology and propaganda, the key to its ability to inspire violence worldwide.

With a chatty ease, Muthana tweeted for her Muslim “sisters” in the US to join her in Syria and denounced her own father on Instagram. She shared photos claiming ISIS provided her with lavish apartments and powerful weapons. She memorialized her ISIS-provided husbands, killed in battle. She praised the deaths of Americans at ISIS’s hands and encouraged vehicular attacks worldwide. She encouraged horrific attacks that have killed thousands of people around the world — including dozens in the very nation she wants to call home once again.

With each new account she created, she messaged me — and in some instances sought me out.

Even though she threatened my life in our first exchanges, and even though I never saw a social media post from her in four years where she expressed anything less than total allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, I can’t see Muthana as a one-dimensional monster. Here was a sheltered young woman who was given her first cellphone upon graduation from high school in 2013 and with it her first chance to express herself on her own terms. She soon was extremely online, using Instagram, Tumblr, Google+, the now-forgotten video app Keek, and a public Twitter account where she joked with her siblings and classmates — but not Facebook, which her father had banned his daughters from using years earlier. But then she created a Twitter account specifically for her growing participation in the Muslim “Twittersphere” — and she didn’t let her siblings follow. That account, in the year leading up to her departure, telegraphed a growing fascination and alignment with the brutal terror group’s ideology.

Like Muthana, I’m extremely online and I understand the kind of influence communities on the internet can have on people searching for purpose and connection that’s missing from their lives. And as I dove deeper into Muthana’s life, I saw her as a young woman caught between two worlds, a child of immigrants frustrated by the restrictions they placed on her and her sister while watching her brothers seemingly do whatever they pleased. A person searching for the connections that her parents’ rules made it so hard to form. A place to belong, and a greater purpose — though the one she ultimately found was utterly misguided. Her tweets were an extension of herself, performing what she perceived as the best version of herself, optimizing herself for the unforgiving seductions of social media.

And she was seduced. In a recent interview, Muthana said that seeing a Twitter friend make it to Syria was what drove her to join ISIS. And her success inspired other women in turn. Soon after her arrival, another young woman tweeted happily that she had finally joined the terror group— and there she met Muthana, her Twitter friend:

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  1. jarmanray says

    May 7, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    The point that she was never a “natural born” citizen has been verified by the U.S. Department of State. Even more to the point is that she is certainly complicit with the murders of thousands of Yazidis and has never criticized the enslavement of women for sexual purposes. She should never be allowed to return even if she was sent to prison, another Obama might provide her with a full pardon as he did the Porto Rican terrorist Oscar López Rivera. If there was true justice on this planet, all terrorist of this nature would be tried by the World Court in Den Haag and if convicted, placed on an island with no chance of escape for the rest of their despicable lives.

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2019 at 11:18 pm

      Thanks for that, jarman, excellent! Let her go back to the ‘HOME’ of her birth and swelter in the dust of Berzerkistan.

      She abandoned her US ‘home’ and burned her US passport … deliberately. So sad.

  2. Westman says

    May 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm

    She took her parent-paid tuition money for college(theft) and spent it to join ISIS. She has not given up Islam after claiming that it was a mistake to be in ISIS. She has not declared patriotism for the US, only that she should have the “right” as a citizen to return.

    A few tweeted words from her alter ego:

    “Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! 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,” – Umm Jihad

    Her lawyer(associated with CAIR) said that Muthana recognizes that she had “been completely brainwashed” by ISIS.

    If she is ever allowed to return to the US, her father and any new husband should sleep with one eye open; she isn’t just a Jihad Muslima, she is also a sociopath.

    • CRUSADER says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:43 pm

      Dalia Mogahed “refutes” Irshad Manji….

  3. Ashley says

    May 7, 2019 at 2:01 pm

    “Even though she threatened my life in our first exchanges, and even though I never saw a social media post from her in four years where she expressed anything less than total allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, I can’t see Muthana as a one-dimensional monster.”
    ___________________

    If allowed to return, I think BuzzFeed’s Ellie Hall should invite her social media buddy, Hoda Muthuna, to move in with her.

  4. Jayell says

    May 7, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    She turned her back on the USA in the most disgusting way when it suited her, so the USA is no longer her ‘home’. In the UK we had the obnoxious Shemima Begum who’s been kicked out of the country and is no longer a UK citizen. That’s exactly what ought to happen here.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2019 at 8:32 pm

      Yes–she should *never* be let back in.

      • kuriakose says

        May 8, 2019 at 12:34 am

        Why not let her back? It would be a ‘humanitarian gesture’ by the US, wouldn’t it? Just like you keep saying it is humanitarian on part of the Israelis to treat wounded jihadis and send them back.

        • gravenimage says

          May 8, 2019 at 9:07 pm

          The above is a reference to christianblood demanding that Israel be destroyed and all Israelis be murdered by Muslims because they offer medical treatment to everyone.

          I never said that this policy by Israel is necessarily wise–I just don’t agree with christianblood in his desire that Israel and the West be conquered by Muslims.

          There is nothing contradictory in my stance here.

        • kuriakose says

          May 9, 2019 at 3:29 am

          Quote ‘not necessarily wise’ -seems to be a nice phrase for a policy that is actually immoral and evil. How would the victims of all those jihadi killers and rapists like that policy, I wonder. Especially when seeing their abusers return from R&R.
          The God of Israel was and is a God of morality whose morals do not change (unlike allah).
          If you can point out where christianblood actually said what you stated. I might have missed it.
          Consequences of evil acts only lead to further evil.

  5. Georg says

    May 7, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    She is home.

  6. Bacherbazistan says

    May 7, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    Ocrazio-Cortezol would let her in.

  7. Savvy Kafir says

    May 7, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    Sure — Come on home, Sweetie! America is the land of opportunity for kafir-hating Muslims dedicated to destroying everything the country once stood for — and maybe killing a few of us loathsome whiteys along the way. We get it. Political correctness & “inclusiveness” are far more important than old-fashioned notions like free speech, a free press, democracy, separation of church (er, mosque) and state, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights, etc. We’re hip to all that.

    If Alabama won’t take you back, maybe my local university will hire you and help smooth out any legal wrinkles due to your treason and stuff. Just contact their Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and you can probably name your terms.

    • Westman says

      May 7, 2019 at 7:35 pm

      And a full-ride scholarship…

  8. TKF says

    May 7, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    She made her bedn now let her lie in it. If we let her back, we are crazier than she is. Let her rot in the Islamic Turd-Pile of her choice. The only reason to let her return would be to stand her up in front of a firing squad.

  9. owensgate says

    May 7, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    She wants re-entry into the USA, and people in Hell want Ice Water.

  10. Bacherbazistan says

    May 7, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    Sweden or Ireland will take her in, they’re safe havens for her sort.

    • BenA1 says

      May 7, 2019 at 8:30 pm

      As part of the US and china trade negotiations china should accept all these animals we send them
      and drop them off in western china

  11. CRUSADER says

    May 7, 2019 at 7:15 pm

    She can always work at the DMV….

  12. gravenimage says

    May 7, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    Alabama IS bride who praised the death of Americans, called for vehicular attacks “wants to come home”
    ………………..

    I’m not usually crude, but I think the proper response to this would be “f*ck you, b*tch*.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      May 7, 2019 at 8:52 pm

      I’ll second that.

      • gravenimage says

        May 7, 2019 at 9:01 pm

        🙂

        • CRUSADER says

          May 8, 2019 at 3:40 am

          Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row over false blasphemy charges, Asia Bibi, has left the country, her lawyer and media said, more than six months after she was acquitted by Pakistan’s top court.

          “I have inquired within available channels, and according to them she has left for Canada,” Bibi’s lawyer, Saif Ul Malook told Reuters.

          Pakistani TV channels Geo and ARY, citing unidentified sources, also reported Bibi had left the country.

          Pakistan’s foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comment.

          Bibi’s release in October sparked rioting by hardline Islamists, who rejected the Supreme Court’s verdict and warned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government that she must not be allowed to leave the country.

          They also called for Bibi, who has been staying at an undisclosed location under tight security, to be killed.

          In November, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country was in talks with Pakistan about helping Bibi.

          Bibi, a farm worker and a mother of four, was convicted in 2010 of making derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours working in the fields with her objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim.

          Her case has outraged Christians worldwide and been a source of division within Pakistan, where two politicians who sought to help her were assassinated, including Punjab province governor Salman Taseer, who was shot by his own bodyguard.

        • gravenimage says

          May 8, 2019 at 9:10 pm

          Yes–finally some good news, CRUSADER.

    • CRUSADER says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:39 pm

      But, she’s “…not going to be IGNORED…!!!”

  13. abad says

    May 7, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    The United States is not Hoda’s home.

    Her home is in Syria where she belongs with the other ISL cheerleaders.

    Keep her off our turf.

  14. Fritz says

    May 8, 2019 at 12:22 am

    Her only “home” should be a prison cell. You made your bed, now sleep in it.

  15. James says

    May 8, 2019 at 3:28 am

    Such people probably want to continue the fight for ISIS and jihad inside the USA, like the terrorists who make attacks here or people who raise funds for CAIR or promote Islamic policies in Congress and politics. She should look for an Islamic state to live in.

  16. na says

    May 8, 2019 at 4:30 am

    I know the reason there are rumors that ISIS Jihadist has started milking the jihad brides with children. They use the milk in cosmetic products and they may sell the milk in huge price. Sometimes they may select Jihadi brides in halal porn movies.

    • gravenimage says

      May 8, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      JIhadi brides are enough of a danger in reality–this is just silly.

  17. CRUSADER says

    May 8, 2019 at 4:47 am

    That’s weird!

  18. Dawne says

    May 8, 2019 at 7:54 am

    Her parents are Yemeni. She can go to Yemen. Why do all these Muslims want to come to a non-Muslim, non-Sharia country?

  19. MJP says

    May 8, 2019 at 7:54 am

    No way she like Ilian Omar hates & Condemns the US every chance she gets they both need to go back to the Middle East & stay there.

  20. elee says

    May 8, 2019 at 10:24 am

    Thanks for keeping the public eye on her. I guess it’s time to be concerned about supervising whoever’s running her camp in Syria otherwise she just turns up missing one day and then who knows where she turns up next?

  21. Golem 2 says

    May 8, 2019 at 11:39 am

    She may come back. In a box.

  22. unbeliever1 says

    May 8, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    I’m surprised that Ilhan Omar hasn’t been advocating on her behalf.

  23. Larry says

    May 8, 2019 at 2:33 pm

    Hoda can stayRIGHT where she is. She made her bed now she can sleep in the desert and sleep with whomever she wants to. Make her clean up the camel dung also. I DO NOT want this terrorist BACK in My Country!!!!!!!!!!

  24. OLD GUY says

    May 9, 2019 at 12:03 am

    Sometimes you just have to pay the price for your mistakes. She freely made the decision to join isis so now she needs to own her decision. She gave up her right to live in America and I do not want her back!

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