Family Of Runaway Jihadi ISIS Bride Who Called For Killing Americans Sues Trump Admin For Not Allowing Her Back In US

The father of the ‘Jihadi bride’ who ran away to join ISIS in 2014 and now wants to come back, has filed a suit against officials of Trump administration officials over their refusal to allow her to return to the United States (US), BBC has reported.

Hoda Muthana, a 20-year-old student at the University of Alabama-Birmingham in US informed her parents that she was going on a field trip to Atlanta but instead travelled to Syria to join ISIS.

After withdrawing from school, Muthana used the reimbursed tuition fee to fund her plane ticket to Turkey from where she reached Syria, and joined the terrorist organisation. Muthana, who was prolific on social media, often called for the murder of Americans. She also reportedly urged jihadis to “take down” President Barack Obama calling him a “treacherous tyrant.”

Muthana is also the mother of a 18-month-old son fathered by one of the three ISIS terrorists she was married to during her time in Syria. With ISIS almost collapsing, Muthana was taken to a refugee camp in northern Syria by Kurdish fighters. She now wants to return home and also has said that she is prepared to face trial in the US for her actions and accept any punishment.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo however has said that Muthana was never actually a US citizen and consequently US had no obligation to take her back.

President Donald Trump also tweeted that Muthana will not be let back into the US.

In response to U.S Admin’s categorical refusal to permit her re-entry, an Islamic organisation called Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C. against President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General William Barr, challenging the administration’s decision that Muthana is not a U.S. citizen. The suit has been filed on the behalf of the family.

Muthana’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, claims that both she and her 18-month-old son are in fact US citizens and that they are being deprived of their constitutional rights.

U.S government claims that Ahmed Ali Muthana was serving as a Yemeni diplomat when she was born in New Jersey in 1994 but her lawyers claim that he was quit his diplomatic post nearly two months before she was born, and that therefore entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.