Posted on 05/08/2019 4:55:40 AM PDT by robowombat
Alabama IS bride who praised the death of Americans, called for vehicular attacks “wants to come home” MAY 7, 2019 1:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
“An Alabama ISIS bride” wants to come home. Can we forgive her horrifying social media posts?” A better question is: should we overlook her impulse to destroy America and desire to murder its citizens?
Hoda Muthuna is another human rights abusing, hateful, indoctrinated, victimhood-manipulating Islamic State bride who wants to “come home”, after going to Syria to fight alongside her husband. Muthuna does not consider America “home” to begin with, but yet in her view, her family’s view, ther advocates’ view, America should welcome her and other Islamic State brides with open arms. For years, Hoda Muthana from Alabama “used Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Ask.fm to spread the very messages ISIS used to inspire violence against America.”
The most significant question often asked about possible returning Islamic State brides is whether are “monsters, or victims?” The answer to that question is that they are “monsters”. Logically, it behooves IS brides to present themselves as victims but the real victims are those who suffered at their hands and at the hands of their jihadist husbands.
Muthana “praised the deaths of Americans at ISIS’s hands and encouraged vehicular attacks worldwide. She encouraged horrific attacks that have killed thousands of people around the world — including dozens in the very nation she wants to call home once again.” Her presence in the West poses an obvious security risk.
Those who advocate for the return of Islamic State brides and their children advance the notion that citizenship is an entitlement. It is not. It is a responsibility. To seek the murder of innocent citizens of a country, to oppose its constitution and attempt to subvert its democracy should automatically render that person an enemy of the state. Islamic State jihadists, their jihadist wives and indoctrinated children, for the sake of homeland security, should remain in or be sent back to the very country that they launched their jihad from. They should be prosecuted there.
“Her biggest obstacle now is that both the Obama and Trump administrations determined that she isn’t even a citizen of the United States”, after she fled Alabama to marry an IS fighter in Syria. Her father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, “a former diplomat at the United Nations for Yemen” filed a lawsuit against Trump to overturn the decision to disown her as an American.
Unfortunately the likes of some bleeding heart liberals ‘tolerate’ the intolerable. Take for example, Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, who declared that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”, no matter what. His heart bleeds for the wrong people; not real victims but the perpetrators who pretend to be victims after they have victimized. Trudeau also fails to recognize the difference between a law-abiding, hard working, taxpaying citizen and a jihadist militant.
“An Alabama “ISIS Bride” Wants To Come Home. Can We Forgive Her Horrifying Social Media Posts?”, by Ellie Hall, BuzzFeed, May 4, 2019:
I started texting with Hoda Muthana April 5, 2015, when she was 20 and I was 26.
We were talking on Kik, a messaging service mostly used by dating app users looking to hook up — and jihadis looking to communicate. Muthana’s first question was how I’d found her. “I’m a journalist,” I told her. “I do my job well.”
“No ur not,” she replied. “Don’t get a big head.”
So I proved it to her, by sending her a smiling high school graduation photograph of herself. That’s when Muthana threatened me for the first time.
“If I see that photo online. I will get someone to kill you,” she texted me back.
At the time, Muthana was a curiosity, a shy American college girl turned “ISIS bride.” Now, she’s sitting in a Kurdish refugee camp with her son, Adam, who will turn 2 soon, begging to return to her homeland, the United States. She has become a symbol of a new debate about the young people — and, in particular, the women — who were radicalized by ISIS. Are they monsters, or victims? And more broadly, in this age of online radicalization, who has traveled beyond redemption? Who can be deradicalized, and who can be redeemed?
I don’t know the answers to those questions, but I do know Muthana better than most of the reporters asking them. I have spent nearly four years tracking Muthana, who fled her Hoover, Alabama, home in 2014 to join ISIS in Syria, across various social media platforms and communicating with her in private messages while she was a member of the brutal terror group.
When Muthana resurfaced earlier this year in the refugee camp, telling reporters she was wrong to join ISIS and that she now wants to return, several media outlets accompanied their stories with a handful of her old tweets calling for violence against Americans.
But her social media footprint is actually more vast and troubling, and I am reporting it here for the first time, and publishing alongside this story my archive of four years of Muthana’s life as she presented it on social media. I have saved posts of hers from various accounts on multiple platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and even Ask.fm. This unfiltered glimpse into her life with ISIS shows she relentlessly pushed the terror group’s ideology and propaganda, the key to its ability to inspire violence worldwide.
With a chatty ease, Muthana tweeted for her Muslim “sisters” in the US to join her in Syria and denounced her own father on Instagram. She shared photos claiming ISIS provided her with lavish apartments and powerful weapons. She memorialized her ISIS-provided husbands, killed in battle. She praised the deaths of Americans at ISIS’s hands and encouraged vehicular attacks worldwide. She encouraged horrific attacks that have killed thousands of people around the world — including dozens in the very nation she wants to call home once again.
With each new account she created, she messaged me — and in some instances sought me out.
Even though she threatened my life in our first exchanges, and even though I never saw a social media post from her in four years where she expressed anything less than total allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, I can’t see Muthana as a one-dimensional monster. Here was a sheltered young woman who was given her first cellphone upon graduation from high school in 2013 and with it her first chance to express herself on her own terms. She soon was extremely online, using Instagram, Tumblr, Google+, the now-forgotten video app Keek, and a public Twitter account where she joked with her siblings and classmates — but not Facebook, which her father had banned his daughters from using years earlier. But then she created a Twitter account specifically for her growing participation in the Muslim “Twittersphere” — and she didn’t let her siblings follow. That account, in the year leading up to her departure, telegraphed a growing fascination and alignment with the brutal terror group’s ideology.
Like Muthana, I’m extremely online and I understand the kind of influence communities on the internet can have on people searching for purpose and connection that’s missing from their lives. And as I dove deeper into Muthana’s life, I saw her as a young woman caught between two worlds, a child of immigrants frustrated by the restrictions they placed on her and her sister while watching her brothers seemingly do whatever they pleased. A person searching for the connections that her parents’ rules made it so hard to form. A place to belong, and a greater purpose — though the one she ultimately found was utterly misguided. Her tweets were an extension of herself, performing what she perceived as the best version of herself, optimizing herself for the unforgiving seductions of social media.
And she was seduced. In a recent interview, Muthana said that seeing a Twitter friend make it to Syria was what drove her to join ISIS. And her success inspired other women in turn. Soon after her arrival, another young woman tweeted happily that she had finally joined the terror group— and there she met Muthana, her Twitter friend
Typical Omar voter.
Yeah, and after they get a dozen more or so filthy ragheads into national office, then we can be as cosmopolitan as London where, even their mayor said, "Terror is the new normal."
And another shout out and thanks to every traitor who is making this possible.
Hey Hoda, women’s lib baby, you’re equal to the IS men.
Enjoy the suck you created.
She’s currently in a Muslim country, so she is home.
Also, what proof did she provide that she’s not coming here to recruit more IS followers. Did she renounce Islam?
She was not kidnapped. She went to help our enemies. She was old enough to know better.
Make this an example to our youth of what happens when you make bad choices, because if she comes back to the U.S., the Left will make her a hero....with book and movie deals to follow.
Nope, she made her choice. And that choice made her far too much of a security threat to live here anymore.
She’s an American enemy......kill her where she is.
She will always be an enemy and always be trouble.
No kumbaya
She is home. Good riddance!
Another grammatically-incorrect “journalist” writing crap about islamic terrorists.
Stay in Syria and die, bitch!
Voter?
Hell, she’ll be the Democrat Front Runner the moment her feet touch the ground in America.
ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT… HER CONDUCT WAS/IS INDEFINSIBLE!!
She is home. Stay there.
This wouldn’t have even been a story during the Obama adminstration, she would already be living in the USA and being supported by taxpayers.
Why not use ISIS in the headline instead of IS?
Afraid of something?
That is funny! Made my morning.
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