[UPDATED] You made your bed when you left America to join ISIS, now you can rot in it until you die

Hoda Muthana was just a twenty when she says she was lured by online jihadists to leave her Alabama home to join ISIS in Syria. Now in a detention camp, she says she just wants to return home, even if it means serving prison time.

UPDATE: What you probably didn’t hear about this ISIS bride:

The Blaze  (h/t SixLittleRabbits) Hoda Muthana, a three-time ISIS bride who left Alabama to join the terrorist group in Syria when she was 19 years old, told CBS News she has every right to return to the U.S.

“I know I am an American citizen and I know I have the right to come back,” the now 24-year-old Muthana claimed during an interview with CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata in Northern Syria.

The Trump administration has made it clear that Muthana, who frequently called for violence and terror on social media during her five-year-fellowship with the Islamic State, is not welcome back into the United States.

Glenn Beck took a closer look at exactly what the self-proclaimed non-threatening Hoda Muthana has been posting on social media, and perhaps more importantly, how recently she was still calling for death to the very Americans from whom she now expects pity. Here are just a few of Muthana’s tweets:

Hoda Muthana used Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Ask.fm to spread the very messages ISIS used to inspire violence against America.

• In January 2015, Muthana urged Americans to join the jihad in a tweet. “Allahumma barik [God bless] there are sooo many Aussies and Brits here but where are the Americans, wake up u cowards,” she wrote.

• Later in 2015, she tweeted: “Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drive-bys + spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades… Kill them.”

• After her first husband died, she tweeted “May Allah accept my husband, Abu Jihad al Australi. Promised Allah and fought in the front lines until he obtained shahadah [martrydom].” And later, “Kill kuffar [infidels] in alleyways, stab them and poison them. Poison your teachers. Go to haram restaurants and poison the food in large quantities.”

• In March of 2017, she wrote, “We have men (and women!) who love death as ardently as you love your lives! I was watching an American documentary on a battle in Afghanistan and the Americans are such cowards. Crying and shaking on the battlefield and saying, ‘our aim is to get everyone home where they belong.’ While our men’s aim on the battlefield is to reunite with our Lord. Our honor is in jihad, either victory or shahadah [martyrdom]. These men cry for their lives while we cry for our death (shahadah)!”

MEMRI In the fall of 2014,Hoda Muthana, the New Jersey-born daughter of a Yemeni diplomat, who lived with her family in Hoover, Alabama and was a student at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, withdrew from the university and used the tuition reimbursement funds to travel via Turkey to Syria to join ISIS.[1] Within a month of her arrival in Syria, she married, on December 20, 23-year-old Suhan Rahman, an Australian also known as Abu Jihad al-Australi. Rahman was close to the well-known Australian ISIS fighters Mohamed Elomar and Mahmoud Abdullatif.[2]

Muthana, now known as “Umm Jihad,” became a high-profile advocate for ISIS,[3] tweeting regularly from Syria in late 2014 and 2015, urging Americans to come join the jihad. On January 7, 2015, she scolded fellow Americans for failing to enlist in the ranks of jihad in Syria, tweeting:

Muthana was a member of the ISIS all-female Al-Khansaa Brigade, and through them had ties to the family of the notorious Australian ISIS fighter Khaled Sharrouf.[5] The Al-Khansaa Brigade group comprised some five women, wives and widows of, inter alia, Australian ISIS fighters Mohamed Elomar and Mahmoud Abdullatif.[6] The women shared photos of themselves brandishing rifles and posing with cars, and regularly tweeted threats. In March 2015, she posed for a group photo with other members of the Al-Khansaa Brigade holding AK-47s, tweeted by her friend Umm Abdullatif, wife of Mahmoud Abdullatif, with the caption “Kikn [Kicking] It In The Khilafa.”

Following her husband’s death in battle in March 2015, Muthana tweeted a photo of his dead body on the battlefield, writing “May Allah accept my husband, Abu Jihad al Australi. Promised Allah and fought in the front lines until he obtained shahadah [martrydom]. And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead.”[7] She also tweeted: “Terrorize the kuffar [derogatory term for non-Muslims] at home.” A few days later, she tweeted instructions to Americans: “Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades… Kill them.”[8]

On March 18, 2015, Muthana’s close friend Umm Abdullatif tweeted: “Our husbands die in frontlines but that doesn’t stop women in the west from sending their husbands to kill kuffar [infidels.]” She then went on to suggest methods to kill Westerners: “Kill kuffar in alleyways, stab them and poison them. Poison your teachers. Go to haram [banned] restaurants and poison the food in large quantities.”[9]

Additionally, Muthana posted on her Instagram account on March 15, 2017: “We don’t love, or even like this world or anything in it… We thank you Allah for choosing us and trying us with trials for this only increases us in reward, patience and revenge.”

Muthana went on to marry her second husband, a Tunisian fighter, with whom she had her son, Adam. Her husband was killed in Mosul, and she then married a Syrian fighter.[10]

 Muthana is now the only American among the 1,500 foreign women and children at the Al-Houl refugee camp in northeast Syria [11] and wants to return to the U.S.[12] However, the Obama administration determined in 2016 that she was not a U.S. citizen and that her passport was never valid to begin with, and on February 20, 2019, President Trump announced that she would not be allowed back into the country.[13]

In a February 22, 2019 NBC News interview, Muthana described herself as a former Islamic “radical” who has changed her beliefs and who deeply regrets traveling to ISIS territory, and that she had been “brainwashed” online.[14] She continued: “I know in fact that I was a citizen. When I tried filing for a passport it was very easy. It came in 10 days.”

In the interview, she also said: “I’m sure there’s no problem and I know my lawyer hopefully is working on it and he will win the case… I prefer [to go to the U.S.] than anywhere else… Of course I’ll be given jail time.”[15] She added: “I am a citizen and those papers prove it, as I’m just as American as any blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl and I would like to stay in my country and do American things.”[16] Asked about her tweets urging the slaughter of Americans, she said, “It was an ideology that was really just a phase” and then said, “My lawyer told me not to speak about these things.”[17]

Muthana’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, saying that the claim that Hoda is not a citizen is unconstitutional. She is represented by Hassan Shibly,[18] who is chief executive officer of CAIR-Florida. Legal experts have said she could be sent to prison for up to 60 years if convicted on terrorist charges.[19]

UPDATE 2: Sister of Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana arrested with husband while allegedly trying to join terrorists.

AL.com (h/t Mina B) The 29-year-old sister of the Muslim woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014, was arrested in April of 2021 in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group.

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. Arwa and Bradley are charged in Manhattan federal court with attempting and conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The couple were arrested as they attempted to travel to the Middle East to fight for ISIS, according to the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The two were arrested at a seaport while attempting to travel together by cargo ship.

Fearing they might not be able to travel abroad, the two planned to attack the U.S. Military Academy at West Point or another area university where Bradley knew military recruits to be training, federal prosecutors said.

Bradley suspected they might be on law enforcement’s radar, so he and Arwa planned to travel to Yemen by cargo ship to fight with the terrorist organization. However, the person Bradley was planning the journey with was an undercover officer “and their plans to wage attacks against the United States have been thwarted,” U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said.

Since at least 2019, Bradley has expressed violent extremist views and a desire to support ISIS overseas or by committing a terrorist attack in the United States, according to the DOJ.

In January 2021, Bradley allegedly told an undercover officer he knew of a university in New York State where he frequently saw Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets training. Bradley, prosecutors say, stated that he could use his truck in an attack, and that he and Arwa could take all of the ROTC cadets “out.” That same month, Bradley and Arwa married in a large Islamic ceremony, according to the DOJ.

Prior to her arrest, Arwa told the undercover officer she “wanted to travel to the Middle East so that she, too, could “fight in [the] sake of Allah,” a court filing states.