Radio Recap: ISIS Bride Not Allowed to Return to U.S.

On today’s radio broadcast, we discussed Hoda Muthana, the 24-year-old ISIS bride trying to return to the United States after travelling to Syria 4 years ago to marry an ISIS fighter (she would eventually marry three different ISIS fighters after each of the first were killed). Muthana was born in Alabama when her father was a diplomat from Yemen based in the U.S. Children born in the U.S. to active diplomats are not bestowed birthright citizenship, since diplomats are under the jurisdiction of their home countries.

Muthana waged war on the U.S. and called for death to America under the Twitter handle @MotherJihad. She actively tried to espouse violence by calling on jihadi Americans to rise up and kill their fellow Americans. One of her many infamous tweets was quite clear: “go on drive by shootings and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and run all over them. Veterans patriots Memorial Day parades, kill them.” In another sickening tweet, she posted a bloody picture of her dead husband and wrote: “And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that this ISIS bride will not be admitted back into the U.S. and has no legal basis for insisting otherwise.  In a statement released yesterday, he said, “Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States. She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States. We continue to strongly advise all U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria.”  If she did come back, she would likely be charged for treason.

In another not so shocking twist to this story, the Muthana family’s lawyer is Hassan Shibly, who is the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Florida and will be speaking alongside Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at CAIR’s annual fundraising gala in California next month. Shibly has also tweeted many offensive and radical Islamist statements, including, “Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization . . . . They are resistance fighters.” He also stated that “Israel and its supporters are enemies of God and humanity.”

As we explained on today’s show, CAIR is a terrorist-sympathizing organization cloaked as a civil rights organization. They appear to be a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and seek to wage jihadi violence. We pointed out that the U.S. State Department has designated both Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations for decades.

Mr. Shibly argues that Muthana is remorseful for tweeting such hateful rhetoric, but then goes on to contradict himself by arguing that we don’t know what she actually tweeted herself, versus what she might have been coerced to tweet by ISIS.

As we explained, her remorse is not a defense, and Mr. Shibly is offering a defense that is grounded in an illusion.

Her repentance seems too convenient and opportunistic; it also comes at a time when ISIS has lost almost all of its territory, and its claim to a caliphate has been destroyed. The U.S. Government is under no obligation to facilitate this jihadi terrorist bride’s travel back to the U.S. She would present a clear threat to our society and should not be allowed to return.