SINGAPORE - About 37 per cent, or fewer than two in five, of Singapore citizens and permanent residents, would contact the authorities if they believed their loved ones were displaying signs of radicalisation, a recent Ministry of Home Affairs survey has found.
Those getting radicalised by groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in Singapore are also getting younger. ISD said most of the self-radicalised individuals detected in Singapore were influenced by Islamist extremist narratives, such as those propagated by ISIS and Al-Qaeda. ISD added that social media and online gaming platforms have featured prominently in recent local ISA cases as channels of radicalisation.
“While the platforms themselves are innocuous, terrorists and extremists have co-opted their features for recruitment and radicalisation,” it added. Social media and online gaming platforms also enable like-minded individuals to connect across borders, forming a “virtual caliphate” where they can propagate their support for terrorist groups and potentially violent actions, said ISD.
In the case of Muhammad Irfan Danyal Mohamad Nor, 18, who was detained in December 2022, he had bought a knife from a convenience store in preparation for his attacks against non-Muslims, including in dark alleys.
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