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Commentary: Reporting a radicalised loved one or friend need not be a dilemma
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You notice your teenage sibling spending less time with the family. Most of the time, he is locked up in his room with his laptop. When you approach, he just says he is doing research. He gets easily slighted and gets into fights at school over being “insulted” on the basis of his views and identity.

You notice your teenage sibling spending less time with the family. Most of the time, he is locked in his room with his laptop. When you approach, he just says he is doing research. He gets easily slighted and gets into fights at school over being “insulted” on the basis of his views and identity.

A similar figure of fewer than two in five, or about 37 per cent, was the finding over a similar question in another survey conducted by the Ministry of Home Affairs in late 2022. There are examples that show how some of those who were reported on corrected their misguided notions, became aware of the grave harm they were about to cause and went on to live productive lives.

However, such attitudes fail to accept that the trajectory of the loved one is already heading towards “ruin” if there is no intervention.The radicalisation is dismissed as a passing fascination or fad, or a phase attributed to youthful exuberance in getting carried away with political causes as it gives one a sense of purpose.This is based on the false belief that one might be overreacting or that the radicalisation is not as bad as one might imagine it to be.

When confronted by her father, she denied being a member of Isis and said instead that she supported their cause as they were fighting for Islam.

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