A woman who left Alabama to join ISIS says she felt 'broken' after she was stripped of her US citizenship

msn.com ^ | sankel@businessinsider.com (Sophia Ankel) • Yesterday 8:27 AM

[RoosterRedux]

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama to join ISIS said she felt "broken" when the US revoked her citizenship for aiding the terror group.

Hoda Muthana spoke in an interview with The News Movement (TNM), conducted from a prison camp in Syria where she is being held by US-allied forces.

She said she wanted to return to the US, and volunteered to serve time in prison if necessary.

That seems unlikely to happen — the Obama administration stripped Muthana of citizenship in 2016. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump tweeted that he had personally barred Muthana from the US.

And in 2021 a federal appeals court affirmed that she wasn't a US citizen, and rejected her father's attempt to compel the government to let her return.

The US argued that Muthana should never have been treated as a US citizen since her father was a diplomat for Yemen when she was born.

The appeals court supported that decision, describing Hoda as "a prominent spokeswoman for ISIS on social media, advocating the killing of Americans and encouraging American women to join ISIS."

But in her interview, a visibly emotional Muthana said: "I still believe I'm a [US] citizen now."

"I've been through a lot of horrible horrible things in my life. One of the worst feelings I've ever had is someone telling me I wasn't an American citizen. That broke me completely."

[Gay State Conservative]

It's my understanding that about the only exception to “automatic citizenship at birth” is if your either of your parents were diplomats at the time of your birth.

[Gay State Conservative]

BTW...love “Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals”! Absolutely spot on!

[RoosterRedux]

"I don't understand why y'all are mad at me."

"Sure, I wanted to kill you, but that was in the past...I was young and naive then."

[rockprof]

Make her a US citizen, bring her back, and execute her for treason.

[posterchild]

How does the US Government consider someone in such a circumstance (born of a diplomat) a citizen accidentally and then not determine otherwise for 5 years?

[roving]

Married 3 terrorists, 2 were killed. Claims they took her phone and did the tweeting

[PGR88]

No, she felt “broke” - because she couldn’t get her WIC, welfare checks, etc...

[trailboss800]

Ahhh poor dear, feeling broken. Suck it up traitor.

[Phoenix8]

I have a suggestion of how to welcome her back.

[RoosterRedux]

Thx.;-)

[ncalburt]

Who is funding this Illegal alien terrorist PR campaign ?
Soros Media Cabal .
She is NOT A US CITIZEN .
Why are her YEMEN terrorist family in Alabama ?
Why is the Soros PR Team allowed to peddle LIES .
Why is the Murdoch Lefty Media peddling these Lies .

[Gay State Conservative]

Because most Federal civil service employees are Rats.

[SaveFerris]

[after she was stripped of her US citizenship]

[SaveFerris]

[Married 3 terrorists, 2 were killed.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s

A Hat Trick would have been better

[RoosterRedux]

Wait a minute. That looks like a Bubba Wallace noose?

You left a noose...loose...at Free Republic?

[Phoenix8]

This time it really is a noose.

[Fester Chugabrew]

How many American citizens are clueless when it comes to understanding and acknowledging what it means to be one? What, precisely, has this woman forfeited? She may now claim, like Obama, that she is a “citizen of the world.” Isn’t that a bigger and better thing?

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"She said she wanted to return to the US, and volunteered to serve time in prison if necessary.

(snort) :)

[leaning conservative]

I’m not for the death penalty, but I’d make an exception in her case.