While teaching surfing in Costa Rica 49-year-old Dean Parker reportedly “heard God’s call” to fight ISIS, according to a story in the Daily Mail.
An American grandfather has joined the Kurds in the fight against ISIS in Syria after abandoning his idyllic life as a surf instructor in Costa Rica, to wield an AK-47 against the jihadists. . . In an interview with MailOnline, Dean Parker, who has no previous military experience, said he ‘heard God’s call’ to take up arms after watching a heartbreaking TV report about the plight of the Yazidi people trapped on Mount Sinjar by Islamic State fighters.
Parker says he’s going to surf the Black Sea just as soon as they can defeat ISIS. For the rest of the story, click the link.
[Link: Daily Mail]
