“In a statement last September (2018), the ministry said Hussein’s radicalisation had started in 2013, after he went online for religious knowledge and followed the lectures of several foreign radical ideologues.”
See? Nothing to be concerned about. He was “radicalized online,” as so many other jihadis have been. No officials in any non-Muslim government would dare entertain the possibility that the Islam taught in their local mosques is the same, or even similar, to the “radical” version that is apparently found only online. How is it that online Islam is “radical,” while real-world Islam is “moderate,” and the twain never meet? No one ever explains.
“Singaporean, 34, charged with sending money to finance terrorism: MHA,” Straits Times, September 16, 2019:
SINGAPORE – A 34-year-old Singaporean man was charged in court on Monday (Sept 16) with terrorism financing, having provided money to support a terrorist overseas, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a press release.
An MHA statement said Ahmed Hussein Abdul Kadir Sheik Uduman had, in 2016, provided two payments of about $1,145 in total to an individual overseas who was “facilitating terrorist acts”.
The first payment of $1,059 took place on July 29, 2016, while the second payment of US$62 (S$86) was on Sept 3 that same year.
Providing money in support of terrorist purposes, regardless of the amount, is a serious offence under the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act, said MHA.
Hussein, a former information technology engineer, had been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) since August 2018.
He was also issued with a detention order for being radicalised and for intending to undertake armed violence overseas in support of the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)….
In a statement last September (2018), the ministry said Hussein’s radicalisation had started in 2013, after he went online for religious knowledge and followed the lectures of several foreign radical ideologues.
They include Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al-Qaeda ideologue who was killed in 2011 by a United States drone strike in Yemen, and several other foreign clerics who have been arrested or jailed for inciting violence or espousing support for terrorism.
Hussein “grew to believe that the use of violence in the name of religion was justified” and by late 2016, was convinced that he should fight and die as a martyr for ISIS in the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East, the ministry said in its statement last year.
He had also maintained regular contact with pro-ISIS foreigners on social media to keep up with the developments overseas and also tried to influence some of his foreign online contacts to follow the violent teachings of the radical ideologues he had been following because he wanted them to support ISIS….