Martyr complex?
Only a fool would bet his or someone else’s life on an assumption of what ISIS “would never do”.
Well, a Syrian low-level Brian Williams-—in a word, BULLSHITTER!
Heard this earlier some where.When he showed up she said she didn’t have a husband.
Good thing she stuck to the plan..
Reminds me of the joke,”Hark I hear a cannon”
Was she happy where she was?
Stockholm Syndrome?
She didn’t botch it. She didn’t know what he was trying to do.
The subhuman savages are solely responsible for her murder.
The emergence of the Muslim “boyfriend” certainly adds a curious element to the story. As I heard it, he was either captured (and released) at the same time she was taken hostage, or he traveled into Syria to secure her release and those efforts were unsuccessful.
I’d say Ms. Mueller’s fate was sealed the moment they learned she was an American. But given ISIS’s seventh-century theology, you’d think they’d brand him an apostate for being with an infidel. Yet, he’s alive and well while his girlfriend is dead at the hands of his fellow Muslims.
There is also information linking Ms. Mueller with some radical Palestinian groups, but apparently that didn’t impress ISIS. Others have suggested her “boyfriend” sold her out to the terrorists, though her family has rejected those accusations.
As with any other story of this type, the facts don’t matter, just the narrative.
“I only want to help the oppressed Muslims, but I would never marry one.”
Yeah, right, he’s her “boyfriend”.
Sorry, “boyfriend”, your “girlfriend” was given to a Muslim terrorist as a slave/bride a long time ago.
The Rachel Corrie Syndrome: wanting to die in the cause of helping Israel’s and America’s enemies.
She either was stupid or was unwilling to leave her captors, the Stockholm thing.
“The Arizona woman’s boyfriend, Syrian photographer Omar Alkhani, said he had pledged to risk his life to save her.”
Risk his life? As in, short of giving his life he would merely risk his life for her?...Hell, some guys risk their lives just by living with their girlfriends.
Sounds like she was a Muslim sympathizer.....when one sleeps with dogs one should expect to get fleas!!!
"But when he went to an ISIS prison and claimed to be her spouse, she didn’t go along with it.
“'The prison judge said she’d denied being my wife and I asked why she had said this. She was crying and could only say, "I don’t know,"’ Alkhani said."
“'To this day, I don’t know why she didn’t go along with the story,' he said."
There are times when one not only should but MUST lie.
Relying on Muslim fundamentalists' adherence to some supposed code or rules is a fool's errand.
The 'rules' are infinitely malleable to the average jihadi savage. For example, it may be prohibited in Islam to kill women and children, but the sheethead merely rationalizes that the intended victims are not actually to be considered to be women and children, but rather they fall into some other category for which it is permissible to kill them (such as people who make war against Islam).
Same thing with the supposed Muslim prohibition against "suicide" - if the goal is mass murder in the name of Mohammed by killing one's self in order to kill others, then that is not considered to be 'suicide'.
And so on.
The lesson being that you can never trust the word of a devout Muslim, because there is always an escape clause. They had their fingers crossed. It's always OK to lie to a non-believer in order to gain advantage (a.k.a. 'what would Mohammed do').
BS. They have been doing that many times. Her "boyfriend" delivered her into their custody. This "story" is just that, a fictitious account to Cover His Ass.
I would have thought that her anti-Israeli protesting would have protected her. Instead, she got eaten by her own.
Millions of Americans mistake a crippling, lethal failure to confront unpleasant truth and to face unpleasant reality for "idealism."
Those in the grip of Western decadence encourage one another to do so.
They fail to think clearly and thoroughly enough to understand that truth itself is the greatest ideal and leads to the greatest benevolence and most benevolent actions.
It is scorn of truth that is the most profound evil of Western decadence.
This scorn of truth, itself an evil, is a manifestation of the dangerous and evil assumption, fundamental to Western decadence, that the end justifies the means.
What she botched was her safety plan. She should never have gone there. She and thousands of other do gooders with their heads in the clouds have Rachel Corrie Disease. They won’t learn until it’s too late. They don’t understand if/when they get killed, they won’t be able to carry on with their work. As if there aren’t problems in their own American neighborhoods they could devote their energies.
Not quite accurate. ISIS will not hold a Muslim man’s wife hostage unless he's the wrong kind of Muslim.