Serious Four Muslims Detained Under ISA! No More Martyrdom Status For Them! So Sad Ri

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SINGAPORE: Four Singaporeans who supported the Islamic State militant group have been dealt with under the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Friday (Aug 19).

Two were detained under the ISA after they made plans to travel to Syria to fight for the terrorist group. The other two Singaporeans were issued Restriction Orders.

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THEY WERE PREPARED TO DIE MARTYRS: MHA

Car-washer Rosli Hamzah, 50, was one of two Singaporeans issued with a detention order for a period of two years.

MHA said that in 2009, Rosli started listening to a Batam-based religious radio station called Radio Hang, which sometimes features speakers who preach extreme religious views.

Sometime between August and September 2014, Rosli was introduced to radical materials promoting the Islamic State by social media contacts who shared his religious orientation, MHA said.

“He became interested in armed jihad and ISIS (another name for Islamic State), and as he perused more ISIS propaganda on the Internet, his support for ISIS grew. He eventually became convinced that ISIS militants were fighting for Islam, and that their beheading of ‘enemies’ was religiously permissible,” the ministry said.

Rosli was prepared to die for the terrorist group as he thought it would bring him “martyrdom status”, MHA added.

According to MHA, Rosli looked up information on travel routes to Syria to join Islamic State. He also actively shared radical information on social media to encourage others to support the militant group and engage in armed jihad.

In July this year, Rosli was arrested when he returned from Batam after visiting his Indonesian wife and children. “At the time of his arrest, he still harboured the intent to engage in armed violence in Syria,” MHA said.

The second Singaporean detained, Mohamed Omar Mahadi, had in 2010 started to listen to the same Batam-based religious radio station. In 2012, he encountered online materials by radical Al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki – killed in 2011 in Yemen – which led him to look up more radical information, including Islamic State-related propaganda.

“By 2014, Omar was convinced that ISIS was fighting to bring glory to Islam, and that it was his religious duty to become an ISIS fighter in Syria. He was prepared to die a martyr,” MHA said.

Omar had been making preparations with his wife to go to Syria with their children to join ISIS, said MHA, adding that there is no evidence at this point that their children were radicalised.

Omar tried to seek help online from militant entities to travel to Syria, and read an online ISIS "manual" that provided tips for those who wanted to join the group in Syria. To prepare for his trip, he memorised the bai’ah (pledge of allegiance), which he intended to take to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“In his view, he and his wife would have to carry out any assignments ISIS had for them once he had taken the bai’ah,” the ministry said.

TWO ISLAMIC STATE SUPPORTERS ISSUED RESTRICTION ORDERS

Omar’s wife Dian Faezah Ismail, a 34-year-old housewife, was issued a Restriction Order for a period of two years.

A person given a Restriction Order is not allowed to change his residence or employment or travel out of Singapore without prior approval from the authorities.

Dian was an Islamic State supporter who believed that the terrorist group’s violent actions were legitimate, MHA said. She supported her husband’s intention to join Islamic State and take up arms in Syria, and helped him in his plans to relocate their family to Syria.

She has moderated her views and will undergo religious counselling, the ministry added.

The second Singaporean issued a two-year Restriction Order was Mohamad Reiney Noor Mohd, a 26-year-old building technician.

Reiney adopted a “more fundamentalist form of religious practice” in 2013 and searched for religious information online. After reading radical Islamic State materials, he aspired to fight for the terrorist group and was prepared to die in battle as a martyr, MHA said.

He planned to save money to travel to Syria, checked online for travel routes and was going to bring his family with him. But he has since “moderated his positive views about ISIS after reading negative reports about the group”, the ministry said.

“He has also set aside the intention to travel to Syria to join ISIS after he was admonished by a close relative that it was ‘forbidden’ for him to do so because the fighting in Syria did not concern him and he would be placing his family in harm’s way,” MHA stated.

Reiney will undergo religious counselling while on the Restriction Order.

MHA added that a total of 18 Singaporeans and four Bangladeshi nationals are currently on Detention Orders, while 24 Singaporeans are on Restriction Orders.

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