Shamima Begum: Donald Trump follows Britain’s lead by stripping ‘Isil bride’ Hoda Muthana of citizenship 

Shamima Begum: Donald Trump follows Britain’s lead by stripping ‘Isil bride’ Hoda Muthana of citizenship 

Donald Trump has followed Britain’s lead and stripped the citizenship of a woman who left the United States to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

Hoda Muthana, 24, left Alabama for Syria where she married three Isil jihadists and had a child. She is currently in a Syrian refugee camp with her 18-month-old son and has begged to be allowed home.

Mr Trump said: "I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!"

It came after Shamima Begum, 19, was stripped of her British citizenship following her decision to run away from Bethnal Green aged 15 and spend four years with Isil in Syria.

A friend of Ms Muthana’s family…

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