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IcyPeas

(21,893 posts)
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 02:32 PM Jan 2022

Supreme Court denies appeal of regretful Islamic State bride Hoda Muthana

The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left her home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group

The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham.

Muthana left the U.S. to join the Islamic State in 2014, apparently after becoming radicalized online.

While she was overseas the government determined she was not a U.S. citizen and revoked her passport, citing her father's status as a diplomat at the time of her birth....

A federal judge ruled in 2019 that the U.S. government correctly determined Muthana wasn't a U.S. citizen despite her birth in the country. Children of diplomats aren't entitled to birthright citizenship.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-denies-appeal-regretful-islamic-state-bride-82201321
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Supreme Court denies appeal of regretful Islamic State bride Hoda Muthana (Original Post) IcyPeas Jan 2022 OP
What country is she considered a Citizen of ? JI7 Jan 2022 #1
Yemen... IcyPeas Jan 2022 #2

IcyPeas

(21,893 posts)
2. Yemen...
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:08 AM
Jan 2022

Interestingly her sister also wanted to go to join terrorists in 2021...

https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/sister-of-alabama-isis-bride-hoda-muthana-arrested-with-husband-while-allegedly-trying-to-join-terrorists.html

Sister of Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana arrested with husband while allegedly trying to join terrorists
Updated: Apr. 02, 2021, 10:57 a.m. | Published: Apr. 01, 2021, 9:14 p.m.

The 29-year-old sister of a Hoover woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group, prosecutors and law enforcement said Thursday.

Hoda Muthana’s older sister, Arwa Muthana, and Arwa’s husband, James Bradley, a 20-year-old Bronx man also known as Abdullah, were arrested in Newark.
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