Americans / Canadians Joining Kurdish Fighters against ISIS
More US, Canadian and UK citizens who feel their government is not doing enough are joining the Kurdish fighters to go after ISIS..
I would like to see more ex-soldiers sign up..
You don't have to be an ex soldier to sign up. You could if you really wanted to but apparently the Kurds are secular so the Christians are bailing.......
Foreign volunteers fighting the Islamic State (IS) are leaving the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and joining other militia’s due to the group’s left-wing socialist ideology.
According to foreign fighters quoted by AFP, an exodus is currently underway of US and other Western volunteers from the YPG due their left-wing stance, with one US army veteran – referred to as “Scott” – claiming he decided not to join after finding out they were a “bunch of damn Reds.”
Another British volunteer named Alan Duncan also said he had left the YPG, who are based in the Syrian Kurdistan region also known as Rojava, because of their leftist views and said he knew a number of other people were planning to leave soon for the same reason.
Many have instead chosen to join Dwekh Nawsha, a Christian militia in northern Iraq whose ideology chimes more with western Christian volunteers than the intensely secular YPG.
One Christian American volunteer, who called himself Brett, told Reuters that he had joined Dwekh Nawsha (which translates as “Self-sacrifice) in Iraq’s Ninevah province where Christian villages still held out against IS.
“Here I’m fighting for a people and for a faith, and the enemy is much bigger and more brutal,” the army veteran said, comparing it to his time with the US military in Iraq in 2006. “These are some of the only towns in Nineveh where church bells ring. In every other town the bells have gone silent, and that’sunacceptable.”
He added that he was not afraid to die for his faith. “Everyone dies,” he said, “One of my favourite verses in the Bible says: be faithful unto death, and I shall give you the crown of life.” -
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Christian foreign fighters deserting Kurdish YPG in Syria because they're 'damn Reds' | Middle East Eye
