Hoda Muthana was the subject of a great deal of media attention a few years ago when she tried to return to the U.S. from the Islamic State’s crumbling caliphate and Trump prevented her from doing so. Now Hoda’s sister Arwa and her brother-in-law have tried to join the resurgent Biden-era Islamic State as well, and her sister has expressed her willingness to murder Americans for Allah. Is anyone in the clueless and corrupt FBI investigating where this family goes to mosque and what that mosque teaches, and what people in their social circle are doing? Why not?
“Sister of Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana arrested with husband while allegedly trying to join terrorists,” by Carol Robinson and Jeremy Gray, AL.com, April 2, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The 29-year-old sister of a Hoover woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group, prosecutors and law enforcement said Thursday.
Hoda Muthana’s older sister, Arwa Muthana, and Arwa’s husband, James Bradley, a 20-year-old Bronx man also known as Abdullah, were arrested in Newark.
Arwa and Bradley are charged in Manhattan federal court with attempting and conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
The couple were arrested Wednesday in Newark, N.J. as they attempted to travel to the Middle East to fight for ISIS, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The two were arrested at a seaport while attempting to travel together by cargo ship, a DOJ press release states. It was not clear Thursday night if either had attorneys.
Fearing they might not be able to travel abroad, the two planned to attack the U.S. Military Academy at West Point or another area university where Bradley knew military recruits to be training, federal prosecutors said.
Bradley suspected they might be on law enforcement’s radar, so he and Arwa planned to travel to Yemen by cargo ship to fight with the terrorist organization.
However, the person Bradley was planning the journey with was an undercover officer “and their plans to wage attacks against the United States have been thwarted,” U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said.
Since at least 2019, Bradley has expressed violent extremist views and a desire to support ISIS overseas or by committing a terrorist attack in the United States, according to the DOJ.
Bradley allegedly said that if he could not leave the United States because he might be on a terrorism watch list, he would do “something” in the United States instead, referring to carrying out an attack, prosecutors say.
In January 2021, Bradley allegedly told an undercover officer he knew of an university in New York State where he frequently saw Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets training. Bradley, prosecutors say, stated that he could use his truck in an attack, and that he and Arwa could take all of the ROTC cadets “out.”
That same month, Bradley and Arwa married in a large Islamic ceremony, according to the DOJ. The two planned to travel to the United Kingdom and then Gambia, where Muthana could work as a teacher, a court filing states.
On March 6, Bradley flew to Alabama to visit Arwa, prosecutors say.
The next day, they went by bus back to New York and made plans to travel to Asia or Africa by cargo ship, not knowing the person who was helping them facilitate the journey was an undercover officer, according to prosecutors.
Bradley allegedly paid the officer $1,000 to help them get to Yemen, the DOJ said, and the couple was told last week the cargo ship was departing on Wednesday.
They were arrested as they walked the gangplank to board the ship.
“After (Arwa) Muthana was arrested, she waived her Miranda rights and stated during an interview that she was willing to fight and kill Americans if it was for Allah,” a press release stated. “Also on March 31, 2021, in connection with a court-authorized search, the FBI seized from a bedroom previously used by Bradley what appears to be a hand-drawn image of a jihadi flag commonly used by ISIS and a hand-drawn map of the Pakistan region.”
Prior to her arrest, Arwa told the undercover officer she “wanted to travel to the Middle East so that she, too, could “fight in [the] sake of Allah,” a court filing states.
According to Arwa’s LinkedIn account and independent sources, she was a one-time student at UAB where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Medical Technology.
In 2014, Arwa’s now 26-year-old sister, Hoda Muthana, left her home to join ISIS….
No one answered the door of the home on Friday when AL.com went seeking comment.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“That same month [January 2021], Bradley and Arwa married in a large Islamic ceremony, according to the DOJ.” Where? Was this large Islamic wedding big enough to generate a newspaper account?
“On March 6, Bradley flew [from where?] to Alabama to visit [his wife] Arwa, prosecutors say.” Why were this married couple living in different states?
Walter Sieruk says
The ISIS jihadists have rather new sly way of recruiting and exploiting young women for the jihad for Islam. Therefore, it might be that this “new sly way” swayed, as that young Muslim female ,Hoda Mathnna, to join ISIS. It seems that ,while with the ISIS jihadists, she might have had , and that is “might”, have has a reality check in Syria by first observation of the Islamic “state ” as then understood that ISIS is totally evil and dangerous .
Now she has said that at that time she traveled to Syria to join ISIS , she was 15 years old and said the she was young and naïve.” Well that might has been so .Foe example , a number of young naïve and impressionable girls of and in the West had been duped, beguiled and deceived by the enticement of the ISIS propaganda machine on internet. For it gave the false offer to those young gullible girls who were willing and able to leave the West and travel to the lands controlled by ISIS “a grand place to live that gives meaning to life.” Those girls who are taken by the lying words of ISIS and travel to ISIS controlled lands Do soon have a very harsh reality check when they discover, to their horror, that all the promises made by ISIS were bogus. In other words all the promise of ISIS are nothing but total falsehood and lies. The deceitful and lying wolfs of ISIS do awful and terrible harms to those girls they deceive, beguile and betray.
Therefore, the old poem of wisdom should be repeated.
“Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon you way. Never trust a stranger –friend; No one knows how it will end. As your pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, or charming never mind ! Now , as then , ‘tis simple truth- the sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth !”
Walter Sieruk says
How I wise I was beyond error and perfect . So here is an improved and better posting of the above essay with the above corrected.
The ISIS jihadists have rather new sly way of recruiting and exploiting young women for the jihad for Islam. Therefore, it might be that this “new sly way” swayed, as that young Muslim female ,Hoda Mathnna, to join ISIS. It seems that ,while with the ISIS jihadists, she might have had , and that is “might”, have has a reality check in Syria by first observation of the Islamic “state ” as then understood that ISIS is totally evil and dangerous
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For example , a number of young naïve and impressionable girls of and in the West had been duped, beguiled and deceived by the enticement of the ISIS propaganda machine on internet. For it gave the false offer to those young gullible girls who were willing and able to leave the West and travel to the lands controlled by ISIS “a grand place to live that gives meaning to life.” Those girls who are taken by the lying words of ISIS and travel to ISIS controlled lands Do soon have a very harsh reality check when they discover, to their horror, that all the promises made by ISIS were bogus. In other words all the promise of ISIS are nothing but total falsehood and lies. The deceitful and lying wolfs of ISIS do awful and terrible harms to those girls they deceive, beguile and betray.
Therefore, the old poem of wisdom should be repeated.
“Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon you way. Never trust a stranger –friend; No one knows how it will end. As your pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, or charming never mind ! Now , as then , ‘tis simple truth- the sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth !”
RichardL says
any guy who converts and calls himself slave of allah makes it clear what his plans are. I am waiting for a Rose Garden ceremony welcoming Hoda back home like B Hussein O did for one of the few US soldiers he approved of.
gravenimage says
Alabama: Sister of ISIS jihadi tries to join ISIS, ‘willing to fight and kill Americans if it was for Allah’
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The family that preys together…