A woman born in New Jersey, who fled the United States to join the Islamic State five years ago, said she "regrets every single thing" and has fought to return home despite the loss of her citizenship.
Hoda Muthana, 25, left her family home in Alabama in 2014 after making contact with ISIS fighters through social media. Muthana had gained a large following on Twitter and expressed anti-Western ideology consistent with that of ISIS, or Daesh, including encouraging jihadis to "go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood."
Upon arriving in Syria to join ISIS in 2014, Muthana burned her U.S. passport and declared herself a part of the caliphate. She married an Australian-born ISIS fighter who was killed in 2015 and subsequently married a Tunisian fighter who was also killed, but with whom she had a son. Muthana married one more fighter, whom she divorced.
She now wants to return to the USA, and she seems to focus upon her wants to the exclusion of more important things: "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."
Does anybody care what she wants? She renounced her U.S. citizenship to join terrorists. Now she "wants" back into the USA (among other things). As Mike Pompeo noted:
"Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States," Pompeo said. “She’s a terrorist."
It seems that she's already made her choices; let her live with them. Somewhere other than here.
