'I as well am a victim of ISIS': Woman who fled U.S. to join terrorist group gives rare interview

[Floyd R. Turbo]

An American woman who fled the United States to join terrorist organization ISIS when she was 20 years old still fears for her life and deeply regrets the decision, she said in an interview released this week.

“I as well am a victim of ISIS. I know a lot of people don’t like to hear that,” Hoda Muthana told The News Movement.

“I was physically abused and I needed some reason to leave. I felt like I didn’t have a relationship with anyone strong enough for me to say, ‘I don’t want to leave them.'”

After four years and three marriages — each time a husband died or was killed she had to remarry — she left ISIS with her young son. They are currently being held in Roj detention camp in Syria by U.S.-allied Kurdish forces.

https://vancouversun.com/news/i-as-well-am-a-victim-of-isis-woman-who-fled-u-s-to-join-terrorist-group-give-rare-interview/wcm/bb7756a1-48ab-40e9-82e1-ae1ff3b3d7a5

[Hortensis]

1. Yes, she is. This is tragic, she regrets a dreadful mistake, but she's not innocent.

I often think about the mass shooters as both murderers and victims of extreme toxic influences they took in. Less murderous but also tragic the far larger numbers influenced by political extremism they can't see or feel to support previously obscure anti-democratic figures who promised to steal elections for them. In another era it didn't happen. To them as well as their nonexistent victims.

It's terribly unfortunate that investigation and the courts decided she's not a U.S. citizen. We've repatriated others who are, some serving sentences for crimes committed while with ISIS. Extremely few Americans are known to have joined ISIS, or tried. Most never left the United States.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. Hard to have much sympathy.

She put herself in that situation for no reason at all. If I jump into a lion’s den and get mauled, am I a victim of the lion? Hardly.

[Better Days Ahoy]

3. Tough luck, babe. F.A.F.O.

Too bad the wacko Waco group "disbanded" or you would have been off to Texas instead of the Middle East. No sympathy.

[mn9driver]

4. She is effectively stateless.

She has no citizenship anywhere. That refugee camp is where she and her child will live the rest of their lives, unless they are handed back to ISIS; but of course that might turn out to be the end of their lives.

Perhaps Yemen might take her, but I doubt it. Bummer for her and her kid.