How are Muslims disenfranchised in the United States? Hassan Shibly didn’t say. He didn’t have to. He was just repeating the words that he knows work among American Leftists.
“Alabama woman who joined IS hopes to return from Syria camp,” Associated Press, January 9, 2023:
A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve prison time if necessary, and advocate against the extremists.
In a rare interview from the Roj detention camp in Syria where she is being held by US-allied Kurdish forces, Hoda Muthana said she was brainwashed by online traffickers into joining the group in 2014 and regrets everything except her young son, now of pre-school age.
“If I need to sit in prison, and do my time, I will do it. … I won’t fight against it,” the 28-year-old told The News Movement. “I’m hoping my government looks at me as someone young at the time and naive.”
It’s a line she’s repeated in various media interviews since fleeing from one of the extremist group’s last enclaves in Syria in early 2019.
But four years earlier, at the height of the extremists’ power, she had voiced enthusiastic support for them on social media and in an interview with BuzzFeed News. IS then ruled a self-declared Islamic caliphate stretching across roughly a third of both Syria and Iraq. In posts sent from her Twitter account in 2015 she called on Americans to join the group and carry out attacks in the US, suggesting drive-by shootings or vehicle rammings targeting gatherings for national holidays.
In her interview with TNM, Muthana now says her phone was taken from her and that the tweets were sent by IS supporters.
Muthana was born in New Jersey to Yemeni immigrants and once had a US passport. She was raised in a conservative Muslim household in Hoover, Alabama, just outside Birmingham. In 2014, she told her family she was going on a school trip but flew to Turkey and crossed into Syria instead, funding the travel with tuition checks that she had secretly cashed.
The Obama administration canceled her citizenship in 2016, saying her father was an accredited Yemeni diplomat at the time she was born — a rare revocation of birthright citizenship. Her lawyers have disputed that move, arguing that the father’s diplomatic accreditation ended before she was born….
Kurdish-led authorities and activists have blamed IS sleeper cells for surging violence within the facilities, including the beheading of two Egyptian girls, aged 11 and 13, in al-Hol camp in November. Turkish airstrikes targeting the Kurdish groups launched that month also hit close to al-Hol. Camp officials alleged that the Turkish strikes were targeting security forces guarding the camp….
The U.S. has repatriated a total of 39 American nationals. It’s unclear how many other Americans remain in the camps….
Muthana says she still has to be careful about what she says because of fear of reprisal.
“Even here, right now, I can’t fully say everything I want to say. But once I do leave, I will. I will be an advocate against this,” she said. “I wish I can help the victims of ISIS in the West understand that someone like me is not part of it, that I as well am a victim of ISIS.”
Hassan Shibly, an attorney who has assisted Muthana’s family, said it is “absolutely clear that she was brainwashed and taken advantage of.”
He said her family wishes she could come back, pay her debt to society and then help others from “falling into the dark path that she was led down.”
“She was absolutely misguided, and no one is denying that. But again, she was a teenager who was the victim of a very sophisticated recruitment operation that focuses on taking advantage of the young, the vulnerable, the disenfranchised,” he said.
Keith O says
As with all of the ISIS brood mares and their evil spawn, leave them to rot in the hell they helped create.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Under Trump, we would have. Under Biden, only thing that may keep her out is if it’s revealed that she has the most recent Covid strain from the Chicoms
James Lincoln says
Or, Infidel, if she stated that she would vote Republican…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, that’s a more likely reason that she’d be denied entry
Keith O says
Infidel & James, now, now, now, this level of cynicism is my job!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Keith
W/ unemployment rising, you have competition 😈
Hank says
“A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters”
“But four years earlier, at the height of the extremists’ power, she had voiced enthusiastic support for them on social media and in an interview with BuzzFeed News”
So she is saying she as a Muslim joins an Islamic movement without ever reading what is written in the Quran hate book against infidels?? It may be just more Taqiya practiced on infidels. She needs to renounce and dump Islam, not bring it with to infidel host country. As long as she follows a hate guidebook nothing has or will change.
James Lincoln says
So, just for starters, has Hoda Muthana renounced islam?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In a sane world, that should be the minimum requirement for allowing her back in
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I forgot – credit where it’s due. Obama in this case for revoking her citizenship, even if on a technicality rather than the larger principle of a traitor to this country being a citizen by accident of birth. Whether it’s her or Anwar bin Alwiki, I have zero sympathy for these ‘fellow Americans’ when they are either droned out to allah, or are denied entry back into the US
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
This ackbarbarian should stay right where she is. She’s in the lands of the muslims. She’s with her muslims. She should stay with her muslims. With her muslims she can be an unencumbered muslima. Perhaps they can remove her clitoris for her.
Walter Sieruk says
If Muthana is actually sincere when she said that she was “brainwashed by online traffickers into joining the group in 2014…”
Since she was an impressionable youth at the time that she was recruited to join ISIS ,and again, “if” she is truly sorry for her past folly and error then it does need to be understood that a number of young nave and impressionable girls of and in the West have been duped, beguiled and deceived brainwashed by 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 given. “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 .”