My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The Real Kayla Mueller By Matthew Vadum The presumed Islamic State murder victim Kayla Mueller isn’t quite the saintly martyr that President Obama and the media are trying to make Americans believe. Family and friends told reporters Mueller was “a deeply idealistic young woman eager to help those less fortunate.” A neighbor of hers, a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran, said Mueller “represented everything good about being an American. In the outgoing battle between good and evil, she represented the best of the good. She took great risks to help other people.” Fresh from the golf … Continue reading The Real Kayla Mueller

My article from the Feb. 12, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: ISIS Claims Another American By Matthew Vadum Kayla Mueller, the young American activist kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists 18 months ago, is dead, probably after being murdered by her captors. Mueller was abducted by Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) as she left a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria and held by IS in its stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. A U.S. mission to liberate Mueller and other American hostages last year failed. After bungling the rescue effort, President Obama now plans to use Mueller’s death to press Congress for … Continue reading ISIS Claims Another American