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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don’t let her ever come back to my country.
#JihadisNeedComfort
Horsesh!t.
You’re looking at it too narrowly.
Think of ISIS as a cult. Think of how many kids get enticed into cults as a result of exposure on social media. Not many, statistically, but enough. Way too many.
Cults are good at identifying targets and what motivates them, then hooking them in and refusing to let go. And once they think they’ve got you theyre relentless in pursuit.
30 years ago my sister, curious about a bunch of new age stuff, had a conversation with a “cute guy” who turned out to be a cultist Made the mistake of giving out her address and phone number. Being smart, she quickly figured out she was being played, learned what cults were all about and their tactics when they kept pestering her.
Finally they called and my Mom was at the phone and answered, told them she was dead. They stopped pestering. But a few years back my sister was identified by name in a picture in her local paper, and the calls and mailings started up again. I told her they certainly kept their old lists and thanks to the magic of the internet ran automated websearches to find “lost sheep”. One of which got a hit.
When phones get smarter than the people using them, Skynet has won.
Sex slavery yes, Islam no.
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