Chinese Man Joins Anti-ISIS Group After Break Up With Girlfriend
I have always said that ISIS attracts the losers from the Muslim world; the ones who don’t have a real job or girlfriend and look to blame others for their situation in life. Well it appears now the opposite phenomenon is happening. Guys with no real job or girlfriend are now looking to make a name for themselves by fighting ISIS:
A 25-year-old man from China’s Sichuan Province has traveled to Syria to fight against ISIS after the relationship with his girlfriend stranded. He is the first Chinese citizen to join the fight against ISIS.
In September of this year, the Chinese man flew from Bangkok to Istanbul, and then traveled on to Syria. According to China Business News, he never told his family where he was going. He stated that he had no job in China, that his girlfriend had just ended their relationship, and that he wanted to do “something meaningful”.
The young man, who calls himself ‘Pan’, arrived in the border town of Ayn al-Arab in October, and joined the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from there as the first-ever Chinese citizen to fight against IS, China’s 21 News reported.
According to BBC China, who interviewed him, Pan does not speak English nor Arabic, and is only able to communicate with fellow fighters using an electronic dictionary. After breaking up with his girlfriend and having no official occupation in China, he felt he had to “something meaningful”, which, Pan stated, was to pick up arms and join the war. [What’s On Weibo]
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How is that the opposite?
Maybe his judgment isn’t the best. but it’s hard for me to fault him for doing this. The world would be better served if all breakups ended with such acts of nobility. He will not regret this in his old age.
He should join the French Foreign Legion. It was a cliche in the old movies that men joined the legion “to forget.”