SINGAPORE — A 15-year-old self-radicalised Secondary 3 student, who had considered conducting knife attacks to behead non-Muslims in popular tourist areas in Singapore has been detained last December under the Internal Security Act (ISA), making him the youngest person dealt with under the ISA for terrorism-rela
Inspired by the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria beheading and suicide bombing videos which he frequently viewed online, the teen also thought about being a suicide bomber and fantasised about exploding himself.
“While all three individuals were self-radicalised separately, Irfan and the two youths subsequently became acquainted through the same extremist social media channel. They had not met physically nor discussed plans to travel together,” said ISD. Since 2015, ISD has dealt with 11 self-radicalised Singaporean youths aged 20 and below under the ISA. All were radicalised online.In its statement, ISD warned against the dangers of online radicalisation and flagged the trend of extremist and terrorist groups targeting youths for radicalisation and recruitment online, as they may be more impressionable and easily influenced"in their search for a sense of identity, purpose and belonging".
Muhammad Harith Jailani, then 18, was an Isis supporter who had made preparations to join and fight for the terrorist group in Syria. He was detained in August 2015 and released on a Restriction Order in August 2017. The order was allowed to lapse in August 2021. A then 16-year-old youth who was influenced by far-right extremist ideology and who wanted to conduct attacks at two mosques in Singapore has been detained since December 2020.
In early 2022, he came across podcasts by foreign segregationist preacher Ismail Menk while searching for such content ISD said the youth had considered travelling to Afghanistan to live in an Islamic caliphate governed by Syariah law, but had yet done any preparations at the point of arrest. ISD said he believed that the Al-Qaeda had defended Muslims from oppression and regarded the September 11 attacks, where the terrorist group coordinated four suicide terrorist attacks against the United States, as a justified act of retaliation against Americans who had killed “innocent Muslims”.
He was also attracted to Islamic eschatological prophecies after watching YouTube videos and had come across ISIS jihadi nasheeds from online music streaming platforms.
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