U.S.-born ISIS bride says 'everyone deserves a second chance'

[Generic Other]

AL-ROJ CAMP, Syria — An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to "go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood," says she "regrets every single thing" and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her young son.

“Anyone that believes in God believes that everyone deserves a second chance, no matter how harmful their sins were,” Hoda Muthana, 25, said in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria where she and her 2-year-old son, Adam, live in a tent.

Muthana, who left her home in Alabama to join the Islamic State militant group in 2014 and married three fighters, is one of a number of Western extremists who present a headache to their governments as they want to return home.

“I want my son to be around my family, I want to go to school, I want to have a job and I want to have my own car.''

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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump tweeted that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to refuse Muthana’s re-entry into the U.S.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-born-isis-bride-says-everyone-deserves-second-chance-n1075046

I was going to say something snarky about Alabamans, but I will refrain.

[ck4829]

1. Alabama... Wasn't that one of those states that up and left the US and waged war on it too?

We gave that entire state a second chance.

[Generic Other]

6. And look how they repaid us!

[nycbos]

2. She is welcome to return to stand trial for material support for terrorism.

I am sure accommodations can be made for her in Fort Leavenworth.

[Coventina]

9. This. If she wants to be treated as a US citizen, she needs to take responsibility. n/t

[snort]

3. Religion can turn people into morons and assholes.

Enjoy Syria.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. I don't have a problem with her coming back.

[LakeArenal]

5. No. Not many murdering sociopaths get second chances.

Literally made her own bed. Your second chance is you are alive to sleep in it.

Lots and lots of your groom’s victims not so lucky.

[ck4829]

7. Pretty sure there's a whole region of the US that got one big second chance

[LakeArenal]

8. No argument there.

Even now Texas still “threatens” cessation.

Please do....

[Igel]

14. After being conquered and then

occupied, then "reconstructed" and carpetbagged.

Sure. Give her a second chance. The punishment should take what, 20, 30, 40 years?

Many never actually "forgave" the South, any more than many never forgave the North.

[OnDoutside]

10. Sez who ?

[okieinpain]

11. Nope don't feel sorry for her.

I’m sad she has brought an innocent person into her stupidity. But she can lay in the bed she made for herself.

[LeftInTX]

12. The govt is saying she isn't a US citizen:

She was born here, while her father was a diplomat. Children of foreign diplomats are excluded from right to citizenship from birthright.

[Igel]

15. Yup. That's why the article phrases it as it does.

"US-born" is supposed to make us jump to the conclusion "US citizen."

[eissa]

13. Tell that to the refugees

Whose lives have been turned upside down by the actions of this asshole and her ilk. Fuck her.

[moondust]

16. Including the beheaded/murdered victims

of her three husbands and their "friends" and presumably one day her son after being raised in that death cult? Second chances for them?

"Let's just pretend none of this ever happened, k? It was all just fake news! Oh yes, I almost forgot...I also want to be a trillionaire."

Let the courts decide.