An 18-year-old Singapore student who was a fundamentalist by an online violent far-fetched extremism and, who had idolized the gunman behind the deadly attacks on two mosques in New Zealand, has been expanded under the Internal Security Act, the government said.
The Department of Internal Security (ISD) said in a statement released on Monday, “Niklai Jing Kiu recognized a” East Asian Dominant “, imagined to launch a” race war “between Chinese and Malaysia in Singapore.”
ISD said, “At the point of his arrest, Lee was aspirational and he had no time to take him out,” said, ISD said, there was no adjacent threat to Singapore in their online contacts. .
Lee has been expanded from December under ISA, which allows suspects to become a hero for two years without testing.
ISD stated that Lee found Islamophobic and far-flung extremist content on social media in 2023, and then actively discovered such materials. It said that he embodied the gunman who killed 51 people in two Mosque in christchurch In 2019, he is playing a role in an online simulation.
ISD said, “Lee aspired to attack Muslims in Singapore with equal ideology, far-flung individuals, who interacted with online,” said ISD.
Lee is a third Singapore youth with far-flung extremist ideologies to deal under ISA, the department said, “There was a growing concern globally in view of far-flung extremism.”
The ISD said, “Youth may be susceptible to finding ideologies and may move towards a sense of related and identity that appears to provide far-flung movements,” said ISD.
