Woman Who Joined ISIS Wants to Return to US

A woman who left Alabama to join the Islamic State in 2014 now says she regrets her actions and is hoping to return to the United States.

"If I need to sit in prison, and do my time, I will do it.… I won’t fight against it," Hoda Muthana, now 28, told The News Movement from the Roj detention camp in Syria, according to The Associated Press. "I’m hoping my government looks at me as someone young at the time and naive."

Muthana, who was born in New Jersey to Yemeni immigrants and was raised in Alabama, ran away from home at the age of 20 to join ISIS. Raised in a conservative Muslim household, she told her family she was going on a school trip but instead flew to Turkey and crossed into Syria using funds from secretly cashed tuition checks.

Once she arrived in Syria, Muthana says she was detained in a guest house reserved for unmarried women and children.  READ MORE...

Syria's All Female Militia

 Sasha Ingber writes...


In northern Syria, east of the Euphrates River, a women’s militia has been battling ISIS -- and battling the odds.

"We just want peace. We just want women to live safe," says Lana.

She is a 32-year-old YPJ fighter -- no spouse, no children. She says she’s one of 35,000 mainly Kurdish women who’ve joined the cause.

"It's like to be one soul in, in many bodies," she tells Newsy.

The militia started in 2013, as a way of protecting neighborhoods during the civil war. Then they started fighting ISIS terrorists who captured, sold and enslaved women and girls. In the strife came opportunity for women to rewrite the rules governing their lives.

"What they are doing is one of the most far-reaching experiments in women's equality, any place in the world. Every town they took from ISIS has a male and a female head of the civil council. There's a women's council in every town. There are women judges trying cases," says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.   READ MORE

COMMENT:  As a white male Vietnam Veteran, it amazes me how all the other countries throughout the world put females into combat zones and yet the United States does not think that is appropriate for American females.  We have females in the military but not a whole lot of them are sent into combat zones.

Why do American Females NOT WANT to be by the side of their male counterparts in a combat zone?

If we ever have a war fought inside the United States, I am pretty sure that you will see females fighting beside males...  and, perhaps that is what should happen to WAKE UP Americans...  that we are not as special as we think we are...

Global Economic Forecasts for 2030

 IN 10 YEARS THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE THIS...

In 10 years, all the emerging countries in the world will catch-up to the global economic leaders in 2020...  this is not a phenomenon but will continue well into the future...

In 10 years, it is predicted that our global population increase will peak and start to level off and that there will be an alarming growth of the Middle Class that will put a stain on global resources...

In 10 years, the availability of fresh water will not be available to everyone because of population increases, urbanization, pollution, climate change, and wasteful usage.

In 10 years, there will be an alarming increase in the aging population in Europe while at the same time there will be an alarming increase in the youth populations in the Middle East and North Africa.

In 10 years, there will be increases in Global Trade due to population increases to the point that our current transportation capabilities will be severely limited and will not be able to accommodate.

In 10 years, the emerging economies will have a tremendous impact on Global Finances and Global Resources as China's economy continues to mature with them thus shifting the location and focus of the growing global economy.

In 10 years, there is disagreement that the US Economy will grow as a result of its vast new oil resources as the global economy shifts towards the east.

In 10 years, there will still be three main areas:  the US, Europe, and China...  however, China will be the largest.

In 10 years, China's economy will be just as large as the economies of the US and Europe COMBINED...  SOURCE:  ESPAS