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  • Hang FM: Allegations By Singapore Government Is Character Assassination

    Hang FM: Allegations By Singapore Government Is Character Assassination

    Following allegations that a Batam-based radio station has been spreading Islamic State (IS) propaganda, the management of the radio station is planning to meet Singaporean officials to explain the radio’s broadcasts.

    On Friday, the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs issued an announcement regarding the arrest of a number of its citizens in connection with IS under the country’s Internal Security Act.

    The announcement, which was posted on the ministry’s website, also mentions that one of those arrested, namely Rosli bin Hamza, acknowledged he was first exposed to IS’ radical teachings on the Batam-based radio station Hang FM.

    The radio’s station manager Abu Yusuf, alias Romi, said the Singaporean authorities should have crosschecked the information before posting such serious allegations on its website.

    “The allegation is character assassination of our radio station. How can we be accused of spreading IS’ teaching while what we convey is clearly against IS’ teachings,” Abu Yusuf told The Jakarta Post over the weekend.

    He said the concept of khilafa promoted by his station was clearly against the teachings of IS, because it referred to Quran verse 59 of Surah An-Nissa requiring obedience to Allah, prophets and leaders.

    “For Singaporean Muslim listeners, we also say that although their leaders are non-Muslims, they are leaders that they have to follow as long as they do not ban them from worshiping,” Hang FM’s public affairs manager Abu Azizah, alias Naldi, said.

    To protest the allegations, Abu Yusuf said representatives of the radio station would come to the Singaporean Consulate General in Batam on Monday to meet with consul Gavin Chay.

    “We will come to explain what exactly the radio station is,” Abu Yusuf said.

    Hang FM went on air for the first time in 2002 on the frequency of 106.00 FM and operates 24 hours a day.

    One of its three founders, namely Zein Alatas, is a former head of Bank Riau’s Batam branch.

    Abu Yusuf said the broadcast could be heard in Singapore and Malaysia. Many Singaporean listeners even gave donations to the station as alms. “Our broadcasts preach about good deeds,” Abu Yusuf said.

    Abu Yusuf also said that station staff members did not know the two arrested Singaporeans, Rosli Hamzah, 50, and Mohamed Omar Mahadi, 33.

    “If it is true that we are spreading IS teaching, why for the last 14 year have only two of them become our followers. This is indeed a baseless and irresponsible accusation,” he said.

    Separately, regional information and broadcasting commission (KPID) chairman Azwardi said that based on monitoring the commission had conducted early last month, the Islamic teachings broadcast on Hang FM were opposed to terrorism.

    “I think the accusation is wrong,” Azwardi said.

    He added that with regard to the accusation the commission had not yet received an official report or request to evaluate the content of the radio stations’ broadcasts.

    Similarly, Riau Islands Police spokesperson Adj. Sr. Comr. Hartono also said that the police had not yet received any official information regarding Hang FM’s involvement with IS sympathizers in Singapore.

    “No report has been filed to us on that,” Hartono said.

     

    Source: www.thejakartapost.com

  • 2 Singaporeans Planning To Join ISIS Detained, 2 Others On Restriction Orders: MHA

    2 Singaporeans Planning To Join ISIS Detained, 2 Others On Restriction Orders: MHA

    Two Singaporeans, who intended to travel to Syria to fight for terror group Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), have been detained under the Internal Security Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Friday (Aug 19).

    Rosli Hamzah, a 50-year-old car washer, and Mohamed Omar Mahadi, a 33-year-old waste truck driver, received two-year detention orders this month, said the ministry in a statement.

    Both men had also sought information online on how to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS. Rosli had searched for possible travel routes to Syria, while Omar had contacted militants for travel advice.

    One of the militants was a citizen of a South-east Asian country and he was later killed in combat in Syria, said the ministry, without elaborating.

    Both men became radicalised after listening to a Batam-based religious radio station called Radio Hang. The station, which claims a following in Johor Baru and Singapore, sometimes features speakers who preach extreme religious views.

    Rosli began listening to the radio station in 2009, and was introduced to ISIS propaganda in August 2014 by “social media contacts who shared his religious orientation”, said the ministry.

    “He became interested in armed jihad and ISIS, and as he perused more ISIS propaganda on the Internet, his support for ISIS grew.

    “He eventually became convinced that ISIS militants were fighting for Islam, and that their beheading of ‘enemies’ was religiously permissible,” it added.

    Omar started to listen to the same station in 2010, and came across propaganda by radical Al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki in 2012. It led him to read more radical materials online, including ISIS-related materials, and he became a believer of ISIS’ warped ideology.

    “By 2014, Omar was convinced that ISIS was fighting to bring glory to Islam, and that it was his religious duty to become an ISIS fighter in Syria,” said the ministry. “He was prepared to die a martyr.”

    Omar’s wife Dian Faezah Ismail is one of two Singaporeans placed under Restriction Orders, which curtails their movement and activities.

    The 34-year-old, like her husband, came to believe that the terror group’s violent actions are legitimate. She also helped him in his plans to relocate their family to Syria, said MHA.

    There is no evidence at this point that their children were radicalised, the ministry added.

    Dian has also moderated her views and will be undergoing religious counselling, it said.

    The other is Mohamad Reiney Noor Mohd, a building technician. The 26-year-old had decided in 2013 to adopt a more fundamentalist form of religious practice, and in 2014 encountered radical ISIS-related materials online.

    After viewing ISIS’ propaganda, he subscribed to its violent cause, aspired to fight for the terror group and was prepared to die in battle as he thought it would make him a martyr.

    Reiney also intended to bring his family to Syria and had thought of saving money for the trip, said MHA.

    Fortunately, he decided to drop his intention to travel there after he was dissuaded from doing so by a family member.

    “Reiney has since moderated his positive views about ISIS after reading negative reports about the group,” said MHA.

    “He has also set aside the intention to travel to Syria to join ISIS after he was admonished by a close relative that it was ‘forbidden’ for him to do so because the fighting in Syria did not concern him and he would be placing his family in harm’s way,” it said.

    MHA said Reiney will undergo religious counselling while on Restriction Order.

    The latest arrests mean there are currently 18 Singaporeans and four Bangladeshi nationals now on Detention Orders, and another 24 Singaporeans on Restriction Orders.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Singapore To Assess Need To Send Forces To Frontlines To Fight IS

    Singapore To Assess Need To Send Forces To Frontlines To Fight IS

    If Singapore faces a direct security threat, forces might be sent to the frontlines for counter-terrorism efforts, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in Parliament on Monday (Aug 15).

    This comes after Member of Parliament Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang GRC) asked Dr Ng for an update on how Singapore can directly contribute to support the multinational coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.

    He said that should Singapore face a direct security threat, the country would fight to make a “real difference”, and not just a “token” contribution.

    Dr Ng also added that a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) medical support team will be deployed to Iraq for about three months next year.

    “The exact size, composition, and capabilities of the medical support team will be determined after our needs assessment and survey team assesses the situation,” he said.

    He added that the medical team will take care of injured soldiers and civilians in the event of a battle against ISIS.

    It was first announced in November 2014 by Dr Ng that Singapore will participate in the multinational coalition against ISIS.

    In 2007, Singapore sent 492 SAF servicemen to Afghanistan during a six-year deployment to the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force, which ended in 2013. It was the SAF’s longest overseas deployment, The Straits Times reported.

     

    Source: AsiaOne

  • Pendakwah Britain Anjem Choudary Didapati Bersalah Sokong ISIS

    Pendakwah Britain Anjem Choudary Didapati Bersalah Sokong ISIS

    Salah seorang pendakwah di Britain, yang terkenal dengan ceramah-ceramah yang menerapkan kebencian, kini berdepan dengan hukuman penjara setelah didapati bersalah menyokong ISIS.

    Anjem Choudary dijatuhi hukuman di Old Bailey setelah para juri mendengar bahawa dia mengikrarkan taat setia kepada ISIS, lapor The Guardian.

    Lelaki berusia 49 tahun itu, yang ada kaitan dengan salah seorang pembunuh Lee Rigby, Michael Adebolajo dan anggota militan Omar Bakri Muhammad, juga menggesa para pengikutnya supaya menyokong beberapa rancangan ISIS yang disiarkan di laman YouTube.

    Anjem dan rakannya yang turut berdepan hukuman, Mohammed Rahman, 33 tahun memberitahu para penyokong mereka supaya mematuhi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, iaitu pemimpin ISIS, yang juga dikenali sebagai khalifah, serta menggesa mereka agar ke Syria untuk menyertai ISIS atau “khilafah”, mahkamah dimaklumkan.

    Kedua-duanya didapati bersalah pada bulan Julai namun perincian perbicaraan termasuk keputusan mahkamah tidak boleh dilaporkan sehingga sekarang.

    Anjem dan Rahman berdepan hukuman penjara selama 10 tahun kerana memberikan sokongan kepada pertubuhan yang berbahaya, menurut The Guardian.

    Mereka akan dijatuhi hukuman pada 6 September di Old Bailey.

    Menurut Ketua Polis Metropolitan Anti-Pengganasan, Komander Dean Haydon: “kedua-dua lelaki ini cuba mengelak pengawasan pihak berkuasa sejauh ini, namun tiada seorang pun dalam bidang anti-pengganasan yang meragui pengaruh mereka, kebencian yang mereka sebarkan dan orang-orang yang mereka galak supaya menyertai pertubuhan pengganas.”

    “Berkali-kali kami menyaksikan orang-orang dibicarakan atas kesalahan paling serius, yang pernah menghadiri ceramah kedua-dua lelaki ini. Ikrar taat setia mereka kepada ISIS adalah satu titik perubahan – akhirnya kami mempunyai bukti yang menunjukkan bahawa mereka sudah melanggar undang-undang dan kami boleh buktikan bahawa mereka menyokong ISIS,” tambah beliau, menurut laporan The Guardian.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • MHA: Zulfikar Shariff Detained And Arrested Under ISA

    MHA: Zulfikar Shariff Detained And Arrested Under ISA

    In a press release issued on Friday (July 29), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, 44, was arrested and detained, after it was found that he had used social media to propagate and spread his radical messages. He considered his propagation of radical material as a form of jihad, by way of creating awareness of ISIS and promoting armed jihad.

    On Facebook, he supported terrorism and the terrorist group ISIS, and made numerous Facebook posts that glorified and promoted ISIS and their violent actions, said the MHA.

    In addition, Zulfikar admitted that he wanted his online followers to reject the Western secular democratic nation-state system and establish an Islamic caliphate, governed by Syariah law.  The MHA added that he had actively looked into holding training programmes aimed at radicalising young Singaporeans so that they would be persuaded into joining his extremist agenda.

    Admitting that he had an ulterior motive for setting up a Facebook page, “Al-Makhazin Singapore”, he used this page to unnerve people on certain Muslim issues in Singapore and attack some Singaporean Muslims who disagreed with him. His real agenda – which he hid from members of that page – was to provoke Singaporean Muslims into pushing for the replacement of the democratic system with an Islamic state in Singapore, said the MHA.

    Zulfikar, whom the MHA said had embarked on the path of radicalism as early as 2001, has previously made news here, when he was  the head of a fringe group called Fateha.com more than a decade ago. The group made waves in 2002 for alleging that the Singapore Government does not consider the sensitivities of the Muslim community. Zulfikar fled Singapore when he was being investigated for possible criminal defamation. His family has resettled in Australia.

    Through his radical postings he influenced two other Singaporeans: Muhammad Shamin Mohamed Sidik, who is already detained under the ISA, and businessman Mohamed Saiddhin Abdullah, 33.

    Saiddhin had looked up to Zulfikar, followed his postings and was convinced by the latter’s “positive portrayal of ISIS”. Not only did he repost Zulfikar’s postings, he also emulated him by photographing himself adopting the common pose of jihadi fighters while standing before an ISIS flag, said the MHA.

    Saiddhin has been placed under a Restriction Order for two years, which took effect this month. A person under an RO cannot change his residence, employment or travel out of Singapore without official approval. He also cannot issue public statements or join organisations without approval.

     

    Source: TODAY Online

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