The Paris attacks have brought new attention to Dimitri Bontinck, a member of Belgium's Dutch-speaking majority. His life was dramatically changed a few years ago, when his then-teenage son converted to Islam and went to Syria to join Islamist fighters there.Now Bontick is trying to prevent other young Europeans from following the same path.Bontinck says his son, Jejoen, was raised as a typical Western boy, the child of an atheist father and a Catholic mother. But then, Bontinck says, Jejoen began dating a Muslim woman, joined a radicalization group and wound up in Syria in 2013, where he spent nearly nine months — most of them in misery."I think he was almost six months a hostage" of his Islamic captors, says Bontinck, "because they suspected [he] really was a spy."Bontinck first made headlines when he went to Syria after his son. He went several times and says he was captured and tortured by Islamists, but finally managed to bring Jejoen back to Belgium, where Jejoen received a
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