ISIS bride case: Muthana lawsuit should be dismissed, Trump administration lawyers argue

April 26, 2019 and   

(USA Today) The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the father of Hoda Muthana, the American-born woman who fled Alabama in 2014 to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria.

Hoda’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana — a former diplomat at the United Nations for Yemen who is a naturalized U.S. citizen — filed the lawsuit in February seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s determination that Muthana is not an American citizen.

Muthana’s father wants the U.S. to help bring Muthana — now 24 and the mother of a toddler boy — back to the United States. She has expressed remorse for her decisions and said she’s willing to face prosecution and jail time for her affiliation with ISIS, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has labeled her a terrorist.

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