Self-radicalisation among youth in Singapore presents an evolving security challenge, driven largely by online exposure to extremist ideologies. Security expert Dr. Noor Huda Ismail emphasizes that digital platforms, social media, and online gaming environments are increasingly utilized to target vulnerable individuals. While Singapore maintains robust security measures and early intervention frameworks, addressing self-radicalisation requires proactive community involvement, digital literacy programs, and strong family support networks to identify early warning signs and prevent ideological exploitation.
- Online social media platforms and gaming spaces serve as primary channels for extremist recruitment and propaganda dissemination.
- Youth and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to digital manipulation and radical narratives due to social isolation or identity searches.
- Singapore’s counter-radicalisation strategy integrates law enforcement action with community rehabilitation and ideological counseling.
- Family members and peers play a critical role in recognizing behavioral changes and facilitating early intervention.
- Building digital literacy and critical thinking skills is vital to help individuals resist extremist materials online.
Based in Singapore, CNA (Channel News Asia) covers global developments with an Asian perspective, with correspondents based in major cities across Asia, including Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing, as well as in New York, Washington D.C. and London.
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any words or names about the Gaza Genocide? u.s. israeli quietly with their 'PEACE MISSION' on the Palestinian People ???!
I am feeling very ashamed for my country's mainstream media !
NO RACE Mentioned ?
Might as well NOT REPORT
RUBBISH REPORTING
Why news reporter don't ask how dr noor huda ismail become muslim? ?😂
Throw all muslim people whoever living in Singapore otherwise you Singapore people will repent later mark my word because don't even pray to their own mother it's fact not a anti muslim but it's a fact read all global news and comment
mainstream media has been touting the 'CCP threats' , the 'Muslim threats' for many decades –
We are hearing these propaganda like we are living in Israel !
u.s. will be sending their 'department of war' idiot pete hegseth to Singapore –
Singapore to comply with 5% gdp on u.s. weapons !
Stop the lies, PAP. YOU are planting seeds for more dissent, causing more havoc and instability among citizens, BY YOUR OWN doing, when you ignore grievances of innocent citizens and their children, especially of dads and young children YOU "take away" against their will, when they were far happier at their homes. You only care about your own image, but do you REALLY care about the citizens you pulled the rug from under their feet? You haphazardly called patriots as terrorists etc but you yourself betray own citizens.
Sarah Sophia of Singapore, the victim of abduction by powerful people who supposedly represent GOVERNMENT who "took her away" AGAINST HER WILL (literally abducted) and she was blocked from going home and from seeing her dad (despite her consistently and constantly pleading that she wants to come home)….
She should be only 14 years old this year, but she was last seen in 2022, after she fell sick when they vaxxed her without getting consent from her natural dad, and the government continues to block and hide her as if like a hostage, to prevent her from telling the truths to her dad and to the world as to what happened to her by perfect strangers during the FORCED separation! She was only 9 years old when she was taken away but the POLICE did absolutely NOTHING, cos they assumed government can do no wrong! Absolutely unacceptable. Noone should be above the law when they commit such a serious crime!
In order to justify themselves for their illegal actions and decisions, they alleged that she had suicidal thoughts (which she herself vehemently denies!) at the time she was "taken", and we should never forget she was only 9 years old and would not even know what suicide means, let alone the question of how you determine "thoughts" when she had done nothing untowards and was happy at home and with both parents (hundreds of irrefutable evidences including photos and videos) – no untoward incidents at home, or anytime, no domestic violence, etc she was kept and "handled" by perfect strangers as if she is govt property or like their "pet". The govt just keep churning false narratives as if plugging leaking holes with their fingers to stop a dam from collapsing on them. Meanwhile Sarah Sophia and her family suffer needlessly.
This has become similar to Otto Warmbier's case, and reported to OHCHR and UNICEF, yet government denial continues amidst several obvious violations of GENEVA CONVENTIONS particularly of child's rights, for how can they block a child FOR ANY REASON that goes against a small child's wishes? The fact that noone has seen Sarah Sophia since 2022, and government LIES to this day, even the Ministry of Education cannot provide physical proof that she indeed goes to school (if at all) and got the school to lie through the skin of the teeth that supposedly she is well taken care of (as if the public really so stupid to be gullible by just mere words), without showing her to appear in person and give her the freedom to speak for herself to prove that her well-being is okay or to prove they were telling the truths. This is indicative of the insidious and nefarious hidden agenda that they hold by not being upfront and just simply relent to a child's simple requests.
On 9th of March 2022 she was assaulted by a female govt employee, aggressively pulled her and hurting her and made her cry and scream, because she was resisting that woman as she was about to reveal to her dad what happened to her during her "absence" when she was about to answer the most pertinent question any DAD would ask: "tell me what happened, are you okay? Heard you had been ill?"
The govt pulled her away despite her pleas and resistances that obviously showed she wished to stay with her dad. And there were many evidences submitted to Court to prove this, in fact in 2024, the FAMILY COURT ordered that the family should get back together again, that she be returned home, especially after the Judge herself spoke with Sarah Sophia one to one.
BUT the government never complied.
In fact, they spun false narratives, whimsically calling the whistleblower dad a terrorist, or insane, like for just having an X-Files poster in the storeroom when they allegedly searched the home WITHOUT a warrant and without the dad, the owner's consent and knowledge. They did so as if desperate to find justifications and so that the dad could not get any help as people tend to believe influential and powerful ppl in govt than a single dad who was wholesomely close to his child (so Dads beware – you are constantly at a disadvantage even if you go to great lengths to protect your own children or your daughter).
The question is WHY the govt is making sure of the suppression and oppression towards a child when there had been A SPATE of missing children, most of the cases involved children running away from the "shelters" that the govt was allegedly "providing" for them. And they always give the sinister default answer of acting in the children's "best interest" by being deliberately vague without actually providing any details as to their well-being. Sarah Sophia at one rare moment even confided to her dad that she had only ONE MEAL: a small plate of PLAIN spaghetti, which is in stark contrast as to how it was like at home with dad and family.
What did the perfect strangers want with her? Why the few govt elites SO OBSESSSED in keeping her? Why the lack of transparency? Why the secrecy as to getting other "public servants" to become their flying monkeys, unwarily complicit in the obviously illegal perjury and holding a small child like a hostage?
They obviously used her for leverage, but one thing for sure if anything untowards happen to EITHER Sarah Sophia OR her dad, during the forced separation, it is enough proof that they were wickedly determined to keep the lid tight and pull the rug from underneath the dad's feet. And that is proof of their evil intentions.
We call on investigative journalists and human rights lawyers around the world to put an end to this unnecessary mystery and clearcut violations of Geneva Conventions…it may seem to you just one case, but let it be known, for the past decades since WW2 hundreds of thousands of innocent families across Asia had missing children caused by kidnapping (but camouflaged as something else) by powerful strangers esp in govts. This had been seriously under-reported, because unlike anywhere in the world (even in Africa) the mass media, justice systems and law enforcements are under the control of super wealthy, powerful people including some hiding in governments (with a smirk on their faces because they know they can get away with impunity!). The coverups and lies, beyond belief but they are so used to that and have become master manipulators of propaganda and citizens over the past decades to the point that few dare question when encountering WHY suddenly children gone missing? But they are very miserly in providing HOW and WHAT, even never mention WHO, not mentioning names or show faces cos they fear the world will help in finding or rescuing those children. There is no reason to hide identities cos the children will benefit if good citizens can help to save them on behalf of their parents – but as we all know the govts hide by giving more support to "foster parents" rather than natural parents, and bending the laws to mislead and misdirect public attention….
Human sacrifices (to appease their gods to secure prosperity as an ancient Asian custom albeit forbidden), trafficking for whatever reasons, human experiments, trading of children, trading of body parts and organs, etc all horrifying but are nonetheless REAL, even law enforcers knew about them but the sick part is the law enforcers are made to defend and protect perpetrators by becoming their bodyguards rather than to serve the fabric of society: families and their children.
a country with the 'Majulah Singapura', with a population of over 75% Chinese .
now has to wary about radicalized Muslim, and also Chinese Influence from their ancestry –
what brilliant plan from the u.s. israeli think tank !
Growing crime stems from deeper societal issues like severe poverty and widespread unhappiness. Economic hardship can create desperation, driving individuals to unlawful activities to meet basic needs. Additionally, the feelings of hopelessness, social alienation, and resentment tied to poverty directly contribute to higher crime rates.
Why have this Indonesian guy to talk about this in SG?
MAS SELAMAT
Tip toeing around the subject and not actually calling out what is actually happening.