Culture War Roundup for the Week of October 08, 2018

I've personally heard of four, in my range of acquaintances of acquaintances. And if that's true for me, that's probably true for most people. I don't even really associate with sketchy people (though I do know some people from Rotterdam), and I've not been looking for them either. I know one of my friend's brother's (now ex-)girlfriend's sister went, etc. Such stories do the rounds all the time. So my guess it's at least a couple dozen for the Netherlands alone, extrapolating to the rest of Europe you'd be in the hundreds easily.

Of course, it's not like there's a news article on every one of them, so I can't substantiate. But it definitely used to be a thing. (ISIS is pretty much done for, and everyone's being kept a strict eye on nowadays, so it's not like anyone's still going.)

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