Radicalised S’porean with plan to flatten Keramat Habib Noh’s gravesite detained under ISA

SINGAPORE: An 18-year-old post-secondary student in Singapore was detained in December 2022 under the Internal Security Act (ISA) as he made plans and preparations to undertake armed violence in Singapore and overseas.According to the republic’s Internal Security Department (ISD), the Singaporean was self-radicalised by online propaganda by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.One of his plans includes a bomb attack on Keramat Habib Noh at Haji Muhammad Salleh Mosque, as he believed that the gravesite, which was decorated and not at ground level, was “un-Islamic”, said ISD. “He downloaded a C4 bomb-making manual online, intending to construct a homemade explosive to flatten the grave,” said the department in a statement issued on the Ministry of Home Affairs’ website today. At the time of his arrest by ISD, the youth’s attack plans against Keramat Habib Noh had not progressed beyond the ideation stage.According to ISD, the youth started down the path of radicalisation in 2020 after he came across Yo