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.”
#1: GrandIsland To: A K A Stone (#0)
They (this great country) needs to let her die... send a message to all sheep that feel any place is better than the USA. Including douchebags that flee to Belize jungles.
GrandIsland posted on 2019-02-17 21:14:16 Reply Private Reply
#2: Gatlin To: GrandIsland (#1)
That happened when he transferred the terrorists known as the “Taliban Five” from Guantanamo Bay to Doha, Qatar, and traded the Taliban army chief of staff, a Taliban deputy minister of intelligence, a former Taliban interior minister, and two other senior Taliban figures for Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl a United States Army soldier who was held by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after he deserted.
The situation with Hoda Muthana sounds like an excellent case for a more reasonable exchange than was the case with Bergdahl. We can make a similar type swap. In doing so we get someone back who has relearned how to appreciate how great America is and can be while we get rid of a grumpy antagonistic individual who runs down and condemns America every time he has a chance to.
Let’s give them Deckard for Hoda …
Gatlin posted on 2019-02-17 22:47:32 Reply Private Reply
#3: GrandIsland To: Gatlin (#2)
I give you an A+ for critical thinking.
GrandIsland posted on 2019-02-17 23:04:40 Reply Private Reply
#4: Gatlin To: GrandIsland (#3)
That sounds like a fair and equitable even swap since hondope thinks and acts like a 18-month-old child.
Gatlin posted on 2019-02-17 23:11:16 Reply Private Reply
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IbJensen posted on 2019-02-18 07:50:51 Reply Private Reply
#6: goldilucky To: IbJensen (#5)
Yep! We should remember that since the late McStain in the so-called honor he served this country. Pictures are worth more than words can ever say about him.
goldilucky posted on 2019-02-18 19:55:42 Reply Private Reply
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Hank Rearden posted on 2019-02-19 01:02:33 Reply Private Reply