Terrorist Case Reveals Inadequacy of Birth Certificates as Proof of Citizenship
By Dan Cadman on February 25, 2019
About the same time I blogged about the dilemma posed to the United States by Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters captured in Syria, news was starting to bubble out on a case that carries implications of a different nature, emanating, though, from the same terror group and the same conflict.
The case involves one Hoda Mothana (alternate spelling Muthana), described by the British newspaper The Guardian as "the only American" in a camp holding 1,500 foreign women and children who were the wives, sons, and daughters of ISIS fighters in Syria. It is a semi-sympathetic portrait of a woman who lived comfortably in the United States, but decided to travel to Syria, where she became an ISIS bride — three times, as her husbands were serially killed in battle. Now she has seen the light and only wants to "come home" to her family in Alabama. However the Guardian also notes:
https://cis.org/Cadman/Terrorist-Case-Reveals-Inadequacy-Birth-Certificates-Proof-Citizenship
