US woman 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

US woman 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home

Exclusive: Hoda Muthana is only American among 1,500 foreign women and children at a Syrian refugee camp

Martin Chulov and Bethan McKernan in al-Hawl, Syria
Sun 17 Feb 2019 19.30 GMT

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.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/us-woman-hoda-muthana-deeply-regrets-joining-isis-and-wants-return-home

[Wellstone ruled]

1. That last sentence says os much.

Think about it. We have heard that same sentence through out History form Fascist and Fanatic movements and people who were swept up in them.

[mercuryblues]

2. Amazing how people deeply regrettheir choices

only after they are caught.

[shanny]

3. Then let her.

We've let Republicans off the hook and they have done far more damage.

[Jake Stern]

4. Let her rot

She should be offered repatriation only if she agrees to plead guilty to participating in a terrorist organization and accept a sentence of life without parole and to renounce her citizenship.

She didn't want to be American and enjoy the freedoms that come with it when she marched off to join ISIS so why should she be allowed to be part of that now?

Tired of these assholes who chose to give the USA the finger by joining ISIS or Taliban and then morph into flag waving, red, white and blue Americans when they're caught or stuck in disease ridden refugee camps.

[Squinch]

5. I'm sure she thought she would be really well treated as a woman in ISIS. I mean, why wouldn't she?

Who could have foreseen that it would be a bad way of life for her?