20-Year-Old Alabama College Student Fled Home to Join ISIS, Had a Baby — and Now Wants to Come Back
Four years ago, Hoda Muthana was a 20-year-old with a sweet face and a gleaming smile studying business at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. While with ISIS she was awilling recruiter and amplifier of their message via Twitter, according to a group that tracks extremism online. But Muthana — born in New Jersey and raised in the Birmingham area — says she is remorseful, is ready to be punished, and she has an 18-month-old son with her....