Youth vulnerable to Internet-savvy terror groups

The Iraq War and the Arab Spring played big roles in the Islamic State’s upward push in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Still, the terrorist group grew in strength over time because its leaders understood how powerful a recruitment tool the Internet may be. With terrorists becoming even more Internet-savvy, children might be extra easily seduced to swell their ranks.

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Experts The New Paper spoke to the day before today were united in issuing the caution.

Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, the professor of safety studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, stated: “The age of terrorism is becoming more youthful. With terrorist mastery of cyberspace, impressionable youngsters and young adults will be influenced using terrorist propaganda.

“Increasingly, the sector will witness more adolescents, young adults or even children radicalized and joining terrorist groups.”

Dr. Rohan is at the top of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR).

On Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) discovered that it had detained Sabkhah Izzah Zahrah Al Ansari, 22, earlier this month after she became radicalized by way of ISIS online propaganda.

Izzah, the primary nearby girl to be detained under the Internal Security Act for radicalism, began to be indoctrinated in 2013. Responding to TNP queries, a spokesman on Monday said the MHA had “detected radicalized individuals of various ages”. Another study fellow from the ICPVTR, Mr. Remy Mahzam, stated that for the remaining 12 months alone, the Singapore government detained or placed a complete nine human beings under Restriction Orders.

Among them was a 19-year-antique who was detained in May 2015. He has become the primary known adolescent to harbor the aim of sorting out assaults right here after being substantially exposed to terrorist propaganda online. Citing another 18-yr-old who desired to educate with ISIS and die as a martyr in Syria, Mr. Remy said: “The indoctrination of younger minds with radical tendencies marks a troubling shift in how younger human beings have been co-opted into the extremists’ propaganda strategy.

“For extremist organizations, the young era represents the future, as they will come to be the subsequent technology of stakeholders or opponents to champion the extremist ideology and radical beliefs.”

Dr. Rohan said that while ISIS is shrinking in Iraq and Syria, it is “expanding internationally.”

Dr. Mohamed Ali, vice-president of the Religious Rehabilitation Group, stated the strength of ISIS lies now not in its assets or territories but in how it uses religion and pronounces messages, recruiting via the Internet.

“The institution’s use of online media will result in more youngsters being motivated because the kids are the ones who use it the most,” stated Dr. Mohamed.

“ISIS is IT-savvy, and it will be extra so in the destiny. This has already been happening and will bring about extra indoctrination.”

He recalled his shock when he read approximately a debatable e-book series inside the junior sections of country-wide libraries, which TNP first stated during the closing week. He knows that such substances may want to stoke radical beliefs due to how impressionable younger minds can be.

Mr. Remy agreed, saying: “The youth are the most susceptible as they devour greater media and are being exposed to a myriad of influences, including religious extremism.

“There is a need to reach out to people who are at hazard of being self-radicalized, mainly by using crafting tasks for a technology-savvy technology.”

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