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Serious Singaporean man detained under Internal Security Act

BuiKia

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SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who openly supported the Islamic State militant group and contributed to the radicalisation of other Singaporeans has been arrested and detained under the Internal Security Act.

Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, 44, was issued with an Order of Detention in July for two years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Friday (Jul 29).

According to MHA, he became radicalised as early as 2001 after reading jihadi-related material. He was supportive of terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah, and advocated Muslims taking up arms in Afghanistan after the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.

After moving to Australia with his family in 2002, Zulfikar joined the hardline Hizbut Tahrir organisation. According to his Facebook page, he is a PhD student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He was also influenced by the teachings of radical ideologues like Anwar al-Awlaki, and established and maintained contact with radical preachers in Australia and overseas, like Musa Cerantonio and Anjem Choudary, MHA said.

Prior to his arrest, he made “numerous Facebook postings glorifying and promoting ISIS and their violent actions, while exploiting religion to legitimise the terrorist activities of ISIS”, the ministry said. This included a photograph of Zulfikar with his children mimicking a pose commonly adopted by jihadi fighters, while standing in front of a black flag that is commonly used by jihadi terrorist groups.

“He considered his propagation of radical material as a form of jihad, by way of creating awareness of ISIS and promoting armed jihad,” MHA said.

SPREADING RADICAL IDEOLOGY

In his online postings, Zulfikar called for Muslims to take up arms and wage war in places like the Middle East, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and the Philippines. To motivate Muslims to engage in armed jihad, Zulfikar proposed the creation of a support system for the families of the fighters.

According to MHA, Zulfikar admitted that he wanted his online followers to reject the Western secular democratic system and instead establish an Islamic caliphate in its place, governed by Syariah law.

“He believes that violence should be used to achieve this goal if necessary,” the ministry said, adding that Zulfikar had actively looked into holding training programmes aimed at radicalising young Singaporeans.

While residing in Australia, he set up an online group called Al-Makhazin and other Facebook platforms for Muslims to counter the Western media. He also admitted that a Facebook page called Al-Makhazin Singapore was used by him as a platform to “agitate on Muslim issues in Singapore and attack some Singaporean Muslims who did not share his views”, MHA said.

“His real agenda was in fact to provoke Muslims in Singapore into pushing for the replacement of the democratic system with an Islamic state in Singapore. He said that he hid his ulterior motive from the Singaporean Al-Makhazin Singapore members,” the ministry added.

Amid the threat of terrorism that Singapore faces, Zulfikar’s promotion of violence and the Islamic State poses a security threat, MHA said.

“At times he has tried to hide his real motivations, by putting out moderate sounding views. But in reality, he believes in the use of violence to overthrow the democratic system of government and the imposition of an Islamic caliphate. He continues to support ISIS and wants Singaporeans to do the same,” it said.

“The Government takes a very serious view of efforts to undermine Singapore’s constitutional democracy, and will take firm and decisive action against any person who engages in such activities.”
 

Pinkieslut

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Sorry I do not think this person is dangerous. Like most sinkies, after radicalized can only talk cock sing song. Don't he is so ambitious or smart enough to try a La Nice or Paris lol.
 

scroobal

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This guy was facing potential criminal defamation suits for online blogging over a number of issues including the tudung affair, comments about Ho Ching and LHL. He fled in 2002 to Australia and joined Tang Liang Hong in exile. He used to taunt the authorities from Australia.

This was long before ISIS even existed. The family finally returned as they missed the ketupat, ikan baker and the Nasi lemak. He has been sending signals to authorities to return for last 10 years or so. He is lucky to get detained for 2 years and not sued into bankrupt.

The authorities probably let him hang around in Australia and meet all the dissidents over the years and now got the debriefing on what is going on.
 

chootchiew

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Sorry I do not think this person is dangerous. Like most sinkies, after radicalized can only talk cock sing song. Don't he is so ambitious or smart enough to try a La Nice or Paris lol.

I believe ISA know he only tcss also but this sort of sensitive thing cannot tcss especially in FB. Till today I cannot find the benefits of having FB account. Want to tackle slim waist gal also won't work I rather use singaporelovelink :biggrin:
 

Rogue Trader

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This guy was facing potential criminal defamation suits for online blogging over a number of issues including the tudung affair, comments about Ho Ching and LHL. He fled in 2002 to Australia and joined Tang Liang Hong in exile. He used to taunt the authorities from Australia. ...

oh yes i remember this guy was stoking up muslim emotions over the tudung issue after 9/11 and before the 2001 GE.

Stupidly, Chee soon juan aligned himself with this guy and his cause. Chee lost a lot of support from the middle ground folks due to that.
 

BuiKia

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oh yes i remember this guy was stoking up muslim emotions over the tudung issue after 9/11 and before the 2001 GE.

Stupidly, Chee soon juan aligned himself with this guy and his cause. Chee lost a lot of support from the middle ground folks due to that.

You mean this?

This Zulfikar could be just using Tudung as an excuse to make people pissed so that he can further his real cause that he revealed now?

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Thick Face Black Heart

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oh yes i remember this guy was stoking up muslim emotions over the tudung issue after 9/11 and before the 2001 GE.

Stupidly, Chee soon juan aligned himself with this guy and his cause. Chee lost a lot of support from the middle ground folks due to that.

Chee soon juan also aligned himself with muhd shamin despite warnings from his peers. Amazingly it was his peers who later got ostracized by the SDP leadership post GE2011. I never could get past how a man, so highly educated abroad, can have such poor judgment of character. Zulfikar came before shamin. Either Chee was clueless both times or he simply refuses to learn his lessons.
 

dr.wailing

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This guy was facing potential criminal defamation suits for online blogging over a number of issues including the tudung affair, comments about Ho Ching and LHL. He fled in 2002 to Australia and joined Tang Liang Hong in exile. He used to taunt the authorities from Australia.

This was long before ISIS even existed..........

The authorities probably let him hang around in Australia and meet all the dissidents over the years and now got the debriefing on what is going on.

This chap is incredibly bodoh......He deserved to be detained by the ISD.

If all he ever wanted was for Sinkieland to become an Islamic country (not ISIS), he just needed to convince fellow Sinkie Muslims that Brunei was and is a good example of a country adopting Sharia as the ultimate law of the land. Look at how successful Brunei is in implementing Sharia law. There are no rebellions or insurrections by religious minorities living in that country.

Indonesia and Malaysia could and should adopt Brunei's example. Corrupt Najib's slowing leaning in the direction of Islamism and it scares the shit out of Chief Natural Aristocrat.
 

JohnTan

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Chee soon juan also aligned himself with muhd shamin despite warnings from his peers. Amazingly it was his peers who later got ostracized by the SDP leadership post GE2011. I never could get past how a man, so highly educated abroad, can have such poor judgment of character. Zulfikar came before shamin. Either Chee was clueless both times or he simply refuses to learn his lessons.

Chee will align with anyone who he thinks can help him. Wasn't there another sdp member who was arrested for being an extremist jihadist?

I hope these extremists get sent off to Guantanamo Bay.
 
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