(FrontPage) Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old woman who fled her Birmingham, Alabama-area home to join ISIS in Syria, in 2014, and who called on others to commit violence against Americans, including against then-President Barack Obama, wants to come home to the United States. According to Muthana’s lawyer, Hassan Shibly, who himself is the leader of a group associated with Hamas, Muthana has a change of heart and now wishes “to help de-radicalize other Americans.” But if Muthana truly had a change of heart, why would she hire someone like Shibly?
In November 2014, Hoda Muthana went missing. She had told her family she was headed for a college field trip to Atlanta, Georgia, but, instead, boarded a flight to Turkey, on route to her final destination, to join ISIS in Syria. While in high school, Muthana had plunged herself into a fanatical version of her faith, even going as far as to separate herself from the greater Muslim community. Winding up in Raqqa, Syria, as a married member of ISIS was the culmination of this behavior.
