SINGAPORE — A 15-year-old self-radicalised student who thought about carrying out knife attacks to behead non-Muslims in popular tourist areas here and becoming a suicide bomber has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). The Secondary three student is the youngest person to be dealt with under the ISA for terrorism-related activities. The teenager is one of two youths...
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A total of 11 people under the age of 21 have now been dealt with under the Act since 2015, with seven of them detained and four handed restriction orders. On Tuesday, ISD said the 15-year-old held the view that "disbelievers" should be killed, and in late 2022 he considered conducting knife attacks at popular tourist spots in Singapore. He also fantasised about exploding himself, and viewed dying as a martyr as the responsibility of all Muslims.
By mid-2022, he was convinced that armed violence was permissible against “disbelievers” which he believed included Shia and Sufi Muslims, and non-Muslims. The youth shared violent Al-Qaeda and ISIS videos, including beheading videos, with his classmates in an attempt to radicalise them, but none of his classmates expressed interest in these extremist materials, said ISD.
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