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A 20-year-old Alabama woman joined ISIS after receiving an innocent graduation gift
Business Insider ^ | 04/21/2015 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 04/21/2015 9:35:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A 20-year-old woman from a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb has left the US to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, the local broadcaster WIAT reported on Monday.

Hoda Muthana made contact with militants through social media and had been distancing herself from other Muslims in Hoover for more a year before leaving, said family spokesman Hassan Shibly, according to WIAT. Her family reportedly fled Yemen for the US more than 20 years ago.

Hoda's father, Mohammed, told BuzzFeed that his daughter's introduction to social media started with the smartphone he gave her as a high-school graduation gift in 2013.

She wasn't technically allowed to have social-media accounts or post photos of herself (though her brothers were), but she apparently found a way around that.

Mohammed said he sometimes took her phone to check what was on it. He told BuzzFeed: "When I get the phone from her, sometimes she scared, and I thought, 'What do you have?'"

During the year and a half before she left for Syria, Hoda became more devoutly religious. She told BuzzFeed that it was due in part to Islamic lectures she found on the internet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alabama; isis; recruit
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1 posted on 04/21/2015 9:35:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You can’t fix stupid


2 posted on 04/21/2015 9:36:46 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is nothing more dangerous than a 20 year old woman.


3 posted on 04/21/2015 9:38:16 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: SeekAndFind
sex slave photo: Muslim Slave MuslimSlave.jpg

Enjoy what's left of your life as a sex slave.

4 posted on 04/21/2015 9:38:51 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: SeekAndFind
Hoda's father, Mohammed...

Source problem identified.

5 posted on 04/21/2015 9:39:16 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: SeekAndFind

All young muslims should be encouraged to go to Syria to die for their beliefs....


6 posted on 04/21/2015 9:39:33 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: fireman15

She found TRUTH of the real Prophet Mohammed on the Internet. Interesting, here is a father, a Muslim which admits his daughter got real RELIGIOUS. Why don´t we expose this as a religious cult that enslaves people...rather than tell people it´s been part of AMERICA, why even Thomas Jefferson was a closet Muslim.


7 posted on 04/21/2015 9:40:50 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: SeekAndFind

Joining a hostile foreign army is one way to explicitly renounce your U.S. citizenship.


8 posted on 04/21/2015 9:41:05 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: SeekAndFind
Hoda Muthana

When you think of the classic southern belle.
9 posted on 04/21/2015 9:42:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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LMAO.


10 posted on 04/21/2015 9:44:02 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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Hoda Muthana of the Cullman Muthanas?


11 posted on 04/21/2015 9:46:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: SeekAndFind
distancing herself from other Muslims in Hoover for more a year before leaving

Sure, a Muslim girl is allowed to do that?

This is a cover story.

12 posted on 04/21/2015 9:49:24 AM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival)
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To: Democrat_media

You can’t fix stupid.

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Maybe after her Female Genital Mutilation. Maybe after her forced sale into sexual slavery. Maybe after she is stoned and beheaded.

Nah... She will still be stupid.


13 posted on 04/21/2015 9:50:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the phones fault...!


14 posted on 04/21/2015 9:56:42 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oh...those peace-loving, fun-loving moozlums.


15 posted on 04/21/2015 9:58:28 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: cripplecreek

16 posted on 04/21/2015 9:58:59 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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his daughter's introduction to social media started with the smartphone he gave her as a high-school graduation gift in 2013.

Millions of kids have been introduced to social media. A handful join ISIS. Hmmmm. I wonder what other part of her life pushed her to use social media to contact and join ISIS?

17 posted on 04/21/2015 10:01:05 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Been to Cullman. Good one. I remember the open air flea market with the guys carrying shotguns etc.
18 posted on 04/21/2015 10:40:16 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s about abdicating responsibility for your life. A lot of these women are sometimes coddled emotionally and they can’t handle the world out there, that doesn’t coddle them at all. Like the woman who married the Boston bomber; she came from a home where she was coddled and ended up being determined to avoid taking responsibility for her life, so she married a controlling asshole.

This cupcake wants a man to control her every move so she won’t have to become a full adult and take responsibility for her choices. Easy to avoid that when you are a sex slave/married to a domineering Muslim. So the handful that are joining are those who are looking to escape, mainly from taking responsibility for their lives.


19 posted on 04/21/2015 10:55:25 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope she likes being used as a sex slave.


20 posted on 04/21/2015 11:09:30 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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