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

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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."

[Freedom4US]

Says who? LOL! Dude. Give it up. The guy who wrote the Amendment specifically said what it means, and just as importantly, what it doesn't mean. Good try, though.

[GreenLanternCorps]

“Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision. Not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that but the text of the statute.”

- Associate US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

[Freedom4US]

That’s exactly correct! Good find. Excellent use of source material.

I’m fairly humbled, and gratified really, that you were willing to prove the point so very conclusively. (Most people frankly, are unwilling to change their mind, much less ever admit they were mistaken) Congratulations!