A US federal judge has ruled that Hoda Muthana, an American-born woman who moved to Syria to join the Islamic State group, is not a US citizen.
The case centers on whether Muthana’s father, who originally came to the U.S. as a diplomat for the Yemeni government, was still in his diplomatic posting when she was born in 1994. The children of diplomats are not granted the right to citizenship by birthright.
Ahmed Ali Muthana — a naturalized U.S. citizen — says that his posting had concluded in the months before Hoda was born, but the State Department contested this.that “Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States.”Ultimately, the judge agreed that there was sufficient evidence that her father was still a diplomat when she was born, and ruled that she should never have been considered a citizen in the first place.
The Alabama-raised woman became notorious for her online postings from Syria designed to recruit foreigners to join the group and commit acts of violence in their home countries. In one post, she urged American jihadists to target events like Memorial Day and to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood.”
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