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A 14-year-old Singaporean teenager was issued a Restriction Order (RO) under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in November 2025.
According to a statement by the Internal Security Department (ISD), the Secondary Three student was found to have been self-radicalised online by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)'s extremist ideologies.
The youth was self-radicalised to the point he aspired to travel overseas to fight for ISIS and "die as a martyr".
Radicalised online
ISD shared that the youth's radicalisation started in early 2023, when he was 12 years old.
He came across an online video of ISIS fighters fighting against American soldiers in Iraq.
After watching the video, the youth began to view ISIS as "the defenders of the civilian population against American and Iraqi oppressors".
The youth continued to search for more information on ISIS, and online algorithms pushed more ISIS-related videos to his social media.
He also found a pro-ISIS website through social media and spent about nine hours a day consuming its content.
The youth became a staunch supporter of ISIS and its cause to establish a global Islamic caliphate through violence by late 2023/early 2024.
In June 2024, the youth took a "bai'ah" (pledge of allegiance) to ISIS and considered himself an ISIS member.
Gameplay footage
As a show of his support for ISIS, the youth began posting pro-ISIS content on his social media accounts.
Such content included pro-ISIS videos he created using footage from his online gameplay on Roblox and Gorebox.
The youth would recreate ISIS attacks and executions on these platforms, and role-play as an ISIS fighter killing "disbelievers or enemies of ISIS".
While the youth felt that he was too young to take up arms for ISIS physically, he aspired to travel in about 10 years to Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq, or Bali to fight for ISIS and "die a martyr on the battlefield".
In preparation, the youth would practice close-quarter battle simulations at home for two hours a day with his toy AK-47 rifle.
He would role-play as an ISIS fighter attacking those he considered enemies of ISIS: the U.S. Army or the Israel Defense Forces.
The youth also went online to garner support for ISIS's cause and encourage others to engage in armed violence for ISIS.
He would create new social media accounts on numerous platforms and post at least one publicly accessible pro-ISIS video a day.
Some of these videos were created by the youth, using images of ISIS fighters, footage of them in battle and jihadist nasheeds (songs) that they found online.
In addition, the youth believed that members of the LGBTQ community should be killed after viewing materials on an ISIS-inspired shooting of the 2016 Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub.
