SINGAPORE: A Muslim limit confidence officer in Singapore has been arrested for formulation to quarrel in Syria, officials pronounced on Tuesday.
Muhammad Khairul bin Mohamed, 24, an unarmed trade officer operative during a channel with Malaysia, was arrested underneath a Internal Security Act, a Ministry of Home Affairs pronounced in a statement. The act allows for apprehension but hearing for adult to dual years.
“Through enlarged bearing to online materials on a Syrian conflict, Khairul viewed a Syrian dispute to be a ‘holy war’ in that he was prepared to die in dispute as a ‘martyr’,” a matter said.
“He grown a perspective that a dispute in Syria was a narrow-minded onslaught between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam, and being a Sunni Muslim, he wanted to quarrel opposite a Shias in Syria by fasten a Free Syrian Army [FSA],” a matter said.
A co-worker who knew of Khairul’s skeleton has been put underneath a transport limitation sequence after unwell to news him to superiors.
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Largely racial Chinese Singapore, that has tighten confidence ties with a United States and has a vast Muslim minority, considers itself a primary aim for nonconformist attack.
Southeast Asia has been on warning in new weeks following a takeover of portions of Marawi city in a southern Philippines by militants drifting a black flags of Islamic State.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1440465/singapore-border-guard-arrested-syria-jihad-plans/