Why Kayla Mueller, raped repeatedly by ISIS leader, refused to escape

Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 15, 2015 | By Sara Aridi

[Brad from Tennessee]

Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi, the leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS), had repeatedly raped American hostage Kayla Mueller during her 1.5 years in captivity, US intelligence officials told her family in June.

"They told us that he married her, and we all understand what that means," the victim’s father, Carl Mueller, told The Associated Press. Ms. Mueller, whose death was reported in February, would have turned 27 on Friday.

"Kayla did not marry this man,” added her mother, Marsha Mueller. “He took her to his room and he abused her and she came back crying."

A 14-year old Yazidi girl captured by ISIS in Iraq last August revealed the American aid worker’s ordeal to US officials who later confirmed the reports. The young girl says she spent two months with Mueller in a house in the Syrian town of al-Shadadiya before escaping in October 2014, reports London’s Independent newspaper.

Mueller tried to shield the girls from the terrorists’ abuse and violence, sometimes putting their lives before hers. When the Yazidi girl escaped with her sister, she asked the American to join them, US officials relayed. Yet Mueller refused out of fear that her foreign appearance would put them in danger. . .

[Balding_Eagle]

Yes.

Simple, direct, fast, cheap.

[Cronos]

Why did he choose her?

[Mister Da]

BS.

Meuller was a terrorist supporter who learned the hard way that the terrorist were nothing more than brutal, sex-crazed savages.

[rlmorel]

This is the woman in question:

The issue people have is that she is being painted as some kind of gentle, naive, victim. You don't have to feel joy over her death to see plainly that she was an adult, a grown woman, capable of making her own choices, who made bad choices.

As you can see from the picture above, she wasn't a child, and aligned herself with murderers. Sure, she may have been a stupid, naive liberal who thought Che Guevara was the best thing since sliced bread, but she was an adult who made her own choices and was legally able to do so.

I despise her politics, and I think anyone who respects those politics is worthy of scorn. And when an American goes to another country (on their own, without the knowledge and support of the American government) and interferes in their affairs, they are going to be subject to the laws and actions of the host nation. We were informed of such when stationed overseas with the US military. We were subject, out of uniform, to the laws of the nations we visited. If you want to blame anything, blame the cancer of liberalism that led this woman to think she could go swimming in an ocean full of man-eating sharks because she thought her intentions were good.

This is somewhat the same thinking as expressed by the useful idiots who are in favor of the deal that will give Iran nuclear weapons. It might be their stupid, idiotic, self-destructive individual choices now, but we are all going to fry together regardless of whether we agree with them or not.

I wouldn't give a damn if they got run over by a bulldozer or flattened in an ISIS safe house, but when it is likely that the fruits of their liberal fantasies come to fruition over somewhere I live, then I am cutting ties as an American to them.

[NorthMountain]

First the dome of the rock. If they don’t stop, Medina. Then Mecca.

I disagree.

Start off with a 475kt ground burst centered on the kaaba.

The mohammedan political murder cult must be destroyed utterly. No sense messing with half-measures.

[tanknetter]

Agree.

I can see both her bravery in getting the other girls to safety, and the human tragedy of her final existance and death.

But, also, the fact that sometimes in life your purpose is to serve as a warning to others. In looking at what happened to her I’m reminded of that guy who went up to Alaska to commune with bears, and his frightened screams as one of his “bear friends” ate him.

[X-spurt]

Not that it mattered, but likely not.

[X-spurt]

You don’t know that to be fact. One should never blindly believe everything that is written.

Yes, there may some truth that she helped the other girls, but considering all her actions tell me she remained somewhat enamored by ISIS.

[wardaddy]

That’s true

Bad choice probably of words

But her naivete put her in an Arab world of ISIS WAR to begin with

Foolishness

War is not the answer sort

[Justa]

She was put in charge of the young Yazdi girls. They were all members of a harem. She knew the girls were escaping yet did not warn their owner. The penalty for this is death. This is why she was killed. She was likely beaten to death or stoned as is the custom. A Dog bites man story.

[Tzimisce]

Um no.

We know ISIS is committing rape and murder.

This woman went over there to prove they don’t.

If this woman was from an area that had been overrun with ISIS and she couldn’t get out, then her actions would have been heroic.

[Nifster]

The article that was posted as the lead in to this thread

[Nifster]

Well since they were quoting the girls she protected I willbelieve them thanks

[Nifster]

She went to help those displaced by IS....she was working with the Yeziti

[DB]

Well just perhaps I had already read other information that better filled in the picture on who this women really was instead of what the left wing media is trying to portray her as.

And perhaps you shouldn’t go off calling people “low information dolts” when just perhaps I was better informed than you were.

A person of character would apologize.

[X-spurt]

You actually heard first-hand these girls say what the story claims? Otherwise you are still blindly believing what some writer with maybe some unknown axe to grind claims they said.

[Nifster]

If you actually believe that unless you hear something in person yourself then it is unverified and likely not true, you must have had a difficult time in history class

[wardaddy]

Yes and she was safely in Turkey doing just that ...helping refugees...when she took it upon herself to travel with her Syrian paramour into extremely dangerous Aleppo in ISIS country as an American against his strongly advised wishes

An issue they had argued about repeatedly

He made her wear a full Hajib with veil and ordered her not to address him in public in Syrian territory

At the Doctors without Borders hospital in Aleppo where he was doing Internet work she in her poor judgement ignored her husbands wise instructions removed her head gear and spoke English openly which alarmed locals there who knew this put her and anyone around her who failed to give her up in grave danger

On the exit from the facility ISIS was waiting and grabbed her having been tipped off and we subsequently sent a team to try to rescue her later but too late

Young idealistic women in America have been ingrained with purpose and invincibility and in her case ignored caution given where she was and paid a dear price

It’s most unfortunate but few civilians especially young women have zero business in a war zone where Americans are the primary target of opportunity

It puts them and all around them in danger especially with a group like. ISIS not bound by any sense of morality

It was very naive and it got her tortured raped and killed regardless of her good intentions or apparent bravery while captured

You should read more about her background

She without question merits the hero treatment far more than Jessica Lynch ever did

Yes I’m sexist......thank God

[X-spurt]

Loved History, just was understanding that it ‘may not be as accurate as portrayed by the Historian writer’.

In school, which was some time pre-PC, they taught to believe only half of what you saw and hardly anything you read. I have found that to be very good advise.

[Nifster]

I am by now means trying to make this woman out to be a hero.

Naive, ill conceived, down right stupid decisions? Agreed all around.

The manner in which muslims treat women as property and things to be attacked and demeaned should be the issue.

This woman was brutalized, by any standard, before being killed