Two self-radicalised Singaporeans have been detained under the Internal Security Act for involvement in terrorism-related activities, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday (Sep 30). Muhammad Shamin Mohamed Sidek, 29, and Muhammad Harith Jailani, 18, were detained in…
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MACHANG: The authorities did not rule out any possibilities of Malaysian students in the Middle East participating in the militant group, Islamic State (IS) in Syria during their semester breaks. Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division, Assistant Director, Datuk…
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The recent arrest of one Singaporean teenager and the detention of another for being involved in terrorism-related activities is a matter of serious concern for all Singaporeans, for several reasons. Firstly, they are some of the youngest would-be “jihadis” encountered…
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KUALA LUMPUR — The threat of the Islamic State looms large over Malaysia, where the authorities have arrested dozens of suspected militants and uncovered several terror plots planned in the name of the militant group in recent months. Those detained…
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In an essay published October 3, 2014 in the French newspaper Marianne, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar, author of Self Islam: A Personal History of Islam (Seuil, 2006); Islam without Submission: Muslim Existentialism (Albin Michel, 2008), and A History of Humanism in the West (Armand Colin, 2014),…
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