‘I just wanted to go there and fight alongside ISIS’: Former…
He is the youngest detainee to date.
It was a similar path for Aakeel, who, as a 16-year-old in 2014, began watching videos on ISIS and the Hamas militant group on YouTube, before getting sucked in by even more radical propaganda videos. “When my mother found out, warned me about supporting terrorist groups,” he said. “I ignored her advice.”
For a while, Daniel’s mother, Rosnah, thought he had been rehabilitated, as he became quieter and more obedient. However harmless the families felt the situation was, they could no longer deny the problem when officers from ISD intervened. As with other detainees, Hamzah had regular meetings with religious counsellors, who cleared his doubts about Islam and explained that the Quran has to be read in context.
His case officers also took care of him when he was sick and ensured that he got treatment from a doctor. Both Hamzah and Daniel spent two years in detention before they were released and placed on restriction orders. Daniel continues to serve out his restriction order.While the four of them are doing well to reintegrate into society, they continue to hold their past close to their chest, in fear of being stigmatised for having been radicalised before.
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