Hoda Muthana is a US-born Yemeni woman who emigrated from the United States to Syria to join ISIS in November 2014.
16 Facts About Hoda Muthana
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Hoda Muthana surrendered in January 2019 to coalition forces fighting ISIS in Syria and has been denied access back to the United States after a US court ruling rejected her claim to American citizenship.
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Hoda Muthana's father was a Yemeni diplomat, although it is disputed whether he was a diplomat at the time of her birth or whether he resigned months before.
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Hoda Muthana was raised in Hoover, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham before leaving the United States to join ISIS in November 2014 using funds that her parents had provided for her college tuition.
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In December 2014, Hoda Muthana married Suhan Rahman, an Australian jihadist who went by the name Abu Jihad Al-Australi.
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The Guardian reported that Hoda Muthana claimed that her Twitter account was hacked by others.
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Hoda Muthana then married a Tunisian fighter and gave birth to a son.
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Hoda Muthana stated that she began to question her allegiance to the caliphate around this time.
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Hoda Muthana married and divorced a third man around this time.
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Hoda Muthana befriended Kimberly Gwen Polman, a dual Canadian-US citizen, when the jihadi enclave had shrunk to just a few square miles.
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Hoda Muthana escaped from Shafa and surrendered to American troops on January 10,2019.
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Hoda Muthana expressed their desire to return to the United States.
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Hoda Muthana said that there was a gulf between Muthana's real world self and the more radical persona she adopted on Twitter, offering as an example that Muthana claimed she had worn modest jilbabs and abayas since eighth grade, when she had only adopted modest dress recently.
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Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the United States.
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In 2021, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the District Court, ruling that Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen.
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Hoda Muthana doesn't wear a face veil and scrawled F-ISIS on the wall outside her tent.