13: Macer Gifford: fighting ISIS
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Me going out there was just about principle, about defeating a fascist death cult that is killing Yazidi trying to wipe out diversity in the Middle East, trying to erode the culture. |
| 0:42.0 | This is not just Syrian history, this is our history too. |
| 0:45.2 | This is something that we can never get back. And these illiterate monsters, |
| 0:51.1 | they are destroying everything that is great about being human about humanity. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill. |
| 1:03.7 | This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, |
| 1:10.7 | the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century. In this episode I am delighted to be joined by Mesa Gifford, which is the adopted name of a Britain who went to fight with the Kurds against ISIS. |
| 1:26.8 | Mesa is a member of that small band of Westerners who was brave enough to travel to Syria to join the fight against ISIS. |
| 1:35.7 | In 2014 he left his rather nice life as a currency trader in London and headed to the bloody war zone of Syria to align himself |
| 1:46.1 | with Kurdish forces who were standing up to ISIS barbarism. |
| 1:50.6 | He has fought with the YPG, the Kurdish People's Protection units, and he has said that he has been willing to die and kill in the fight against ISIS. |
| 2:02.0 | He has fought alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces |
| 2:05.5 | who have been at the forefront of the fight against ISIS tyranny in Syria. |
| 2:10.1 | He is currently working to establish a medical aid charity to assist victims of the Syrian civil war. |
| 2:18.0 | And he has also become a media figure and in recent weeks he has defended the British government's strong |
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