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Home Front: WoT
American Hoda Muthana 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home
2019-02-18
[Al-Grauniad] An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she "deeply regrets" travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama.

Once one of Isis's most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a "big mistake" when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online.

Speaking from al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, while her 18-month-old son played at her feet, Muthana said she misunderstood her faith, and that friends she had at the time believed they were following Islamic tenets when they aligned themselves to Isis.

"We were basically in the time of ignorance […] and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way," she said. "I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God."
Sucks to be you. Bye
Posted by:Frank G

#18  It's so hard to be young. Lots of emotions and half-baked thoughts. It delivers you unto various sorts of radicalism and stupidity. Maybe there should be some kind of path back to sensibility. But, nobody asked me to solve that problem, so it's not my problem. Good luck, lady.
Posted by: Beau   2019-02-18 23:57  

#17  Let her return. Hang her as a traitor.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2019-02-18 20:03  

#16  Not no but hell no. Maybe Teresa May will take you....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-02-18 19:08  

#15  She is home. Said so herself.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-02-18 15:04  

#14  How bout Cuba, instead - it's close to Alabama.. and there a bed open in Gitmo.
Posted by: Maggie Sproing4636   2019-02-18 14:38  

#13  You made your (3) beds. Suggest you lie in them.
Posted by: Graviper Pheresing6765   2019-02-18 14:36  

#12  She will be allowed to return if she swears a solemn oath to vote Democrat.

But if she's from Alabama, a good solution would be to parachute her into Tuscaloosa wearing Auburn colors.
Posted by: Matt   2019-02-18 11:52  

#11  She can return home.

In a pine box.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-02-18 11:39  

#10  Muthana angrily tweeted: “Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriots, Memorial, etc day … Kill them.”

She gave up her citizenship when she joined ISIS. She married three jihadists who were later were killed as the result of their activities. She had children with these jihadists.

Often there are not second chances...Live with it (or not)--just not in the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-02-18 09:40  

#9  American Hoda Muthana 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home

And run for congress.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-18 07:54  

#8  Conrad said it best: "The worst kind of ****** we have here..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:31  

#7  "We were basically in the time of ignorance […] and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way," she said. "I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God."

Still talking about your god?

You didn't know what IS was doing to people?

You aligned yourself with thugs?

Still wearing a scarf?
Posted by: gorb   2019-02-18 07:25  

#6  At DoS, they believe an American passport makes you American. Seems like abusing it to fight against America doesn't bother them much at Foggy Bottom...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:20  

#5  She doesn’t look American. Let her suffer her fate. As an example to others.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Clavith3514   2019-02-18 07:17  

#4  Often heard in the "Dance Hall" at Sing-Sing: "I didn't mean it. It was a mistake!"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:09  

#3  ....friends she had at the time believed they were following Islamic tenets when they aligned themselves to Isis.

She got that bit right.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-18 07:05  

#2  Fugg em!
Posted by: SR-71   2019-02-18 07:04  

#1  But her name is Hoda. A beloved name. Surely there must be mercy.

Um. NO!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:03  

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