Remorse or Convenience? American ISIS bride who called for terror attacks at Memorial Day parades and has married three jihadi fighters claims ‘I made a big mistake’ – Begs the US to let her back to Alabama
American ISIS bride Hoda Muthana,who called for terror attacks at Memorial Day parades and has married three Jihadi fighters wants the US to let her go back to Alabama
Muthana, 24, who left Hoover, Alabama in 2014, in order to join ISIS in Syria told interviewers ‘I made a big mistake’
The former University of Alabama student has married thrice and called for US Muslims to launch terror attacks on social media
She recently fled ISIS’s ‘final front line’ and is now in a refugee camp in Syria, with her 18-month-old son
She is begging to be allowed to return to the US, saying she ‘made a big mistake’
Remorse or Convenience? ‘ISIS bride’ Hoda Muthana, seen [photo], while in high school, says she ‘deeply regrets’ leaving the US, and that she believed she was doing what was right according to Islam because she had been brainwashed
An American Jihadi bride living in a refugee camp after fleeing the Jihadist’s last stand in Syria is begging the US to allow her to return home. In 2014, 19-year-old Hoda Muthana abandoned her studies at the University of Alabama for the world of Islamist extremists. Hoda left Hoover, Alabama in order to join ISIS in Syria, where she would later troll US interests and call for US Muslims to ‘spill all of the blood’ by launching terror attacks during Memorial Day events.
Muthana was 19 years old when she left the US and headed to Raqqa in Syria where she would first marry an Australian jihadist and then a Tunisian man. Both died fighting for ISIS, and she recently married a Syrian, The Guardian reveals. Now 24, and having lost two of her three Jihadi fighter husbands, she is currently living in a squalid IDP camp along with other ISIS suspected families. Housed with 1,500 other foreign wives and children in the refugee camp, she claims to have been brainwashed and made a ‘big mistake’ when she traveled to Syria. During her time as a Jihadi bride in ISIS’s then-capital Raqqa in Syria, she would use social media to spread hatred against non-Muslims and call for terror attacks in the US.
Hoda Muthana, 24, holds her 18-month-old son Adam in-front of one of the administration buildings of the al-Hawl IDP camp where ISIS suspected families, who fled heavy fighting in the city of Baghuz are kept
Hoda is among the 1,500 foreign woman and children being held at al-Hawl camp in Syria
In a 2015 tweet she wrote: ‘You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! ‘Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades..go on drive by’s + spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n drive all over them. Kill them.’ [sic] Now, she is living in the tent-city that is al-Hol – also known as al-Hawl – a refugee camp in northern Syria some 200 miles away from ISIS’s ‘last front’ near the village of Baghouz by the Iraqi border.
Dawning of reality: Muthana, seen [photo right], while in high school, says she now [left], ‘deeply regrets’ leaving the US, and that she believed she was doing what was right according to Islam because she had been ‘brainwashed’
This apparently jubilant photo of female Jihadis waving the ISIS flag was found on a now-deactivated Twitter account which reportedly belonged to Hoda Muthana
Speaking to The Guardian, Muthana claims she ‘deeply regrets’ leaving the US, and that she believed she was doing what was right according to Islam. ‘I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God,’ adding that she now believes she ‘misunderstood’ her faith. ‘I was really young and ignorant and I was 19 when I decided to leave.’ At the time when she left, her family pleaded with her to come home and in an interview with BuzzFeed, her father said she had been ‘brainwashed’. “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.” 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. The 24-year-old former college student says she is worried about the future of her young child, a boy called Adam whose father is her second ISIS husband, and is begging the US and her family for forgiveness.
Similar apparent remorse: Shamima Begum seen [left] in her passport photo, and [right], before she left the UK aged 15. Now aged 19 and stranded in Syria, she is seeking a return to the UK
‘I believe that America gives second chances. I want to return and I’ll never come back to the Middle East. America can take my passport and I wouldn’t mind.’ Muthana is one of more than 25,000 displaced people who have turned up in al-Hol in recent weeks as US-backed forces closed in on ISIS’s final sliver of territory in the Euphrates Valley, 200 miles away from the camp.
Another western ISIS bride living in the camp is 19-year-old Shamima Begum, who was just 15 when she and two classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase travelled from London’s Bethnal Green to Syria in February 2015. Begum, like Muthana, is pleading with authorities to be allowed to return to her home country as she fears for the future of her son. Conditions in the camp are better than on the road, but the makeshift tents, overcrowding and sparse resources pose a great health risk to children, with at least 29 dying in al-Hol in the past two months, mainly because of hypothermia, the World Health Organization said earlier this month.
Hoda is among the 1,500 foreign woman and children being held at al-Hawl camp in Syria
Dawning of reality: Muthana, seen [photo right], while in high school, says she now [left], ‘deeply regrets’ leaving the US, and that she believed she was doing what was right according to Islam because she had been ‘brainwashed’
This apparently jubilant photo of female Jihadis waving the ISIS flag was found on a now-deactivated Twitter account which reportedly belonged to Hoda Muthana
Similar apparent remorse: Shamima Begum seen [left] in her passport photo, and [right], before she left the UK aged 15. Now aged 19 and stranded in Syria, she is seeking a return to the UK
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