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Singapore deports 26 Muslims who supported the Islamic State, studied assassination techniques, recruited in mosque

Jan 22, 2016 8:49 pm By Robert Spencer

This AFP story says they were actively recruiting members, but doesn’t say where. Why not? This Channel News Asia story says they were “meeting on a regular basis at a mosque.” Our moral superiors constantly remind us that jihad terror has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, but oddly enough, those who plot it often seem to be found in mosques. None of our moral superiors have offered an explanation for that.

Singapore police

“Singapore says it deported 26 Bangladeshis for terror links,” AFP, January 20, 2016:

Singapore disclosed Wednesday it arrested 27 Bangladeshi construction workers late last year for supporting “the armed jihad ideology” of militants like the Islamic State group, and deported 26 of them.

The workers were being groomed to return to their home country to wage holy war and had studied booklets on assassination techniques, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.

“They were plotting nefarious activities in Bangladesh and other countries, and not in Singapore. But they were still a serious threat to us,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a Facebook post late Wednesday….

Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam said in an earlier Facebook post that the workers “could have easily changed their minds and attacked Singapore”.

Several members of the group also contemplated joining “armed jihad” with the IS group in Iraq and Syria, according to the MHA.

“They supported the armed jihad ideology of terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” the ministry said in the statement.

The 27 men, aged between 25 and 40, were arrested between November 16 and December 1 last year under Singapore’s Internal Security Act.

They all worked in construction in Singapore, where large numbers of labourers mostly from South Asia live in often cramped dormitories.

“The group members took measures to avoid detection by the authorities. They shared jihadi-related material discreetly among themselves, and held weekly meetings and gatherings where they discussed armed jihad and conflicts that involved Muslims,” the ministry said, adding that the group was also actively recruiting members….

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    “They were plotting nefarious activities in Bangladesh and other countries, and not in Singapore. But they were still a serious threat to us,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a Facebook post late Wednesday….

    Meanwhile, in the West, muslims trying to go and engage in “nefarious activities” in other countries are blocked from going. Because, apparently, if they don’t go somewhere else, they won’t engage in “nefarious activities” – it’s all about poverty, lack of education and rage against foreign dictators, you see, so if they’re prevented from going abroad and are, instead, given education and money, they’ll be fine, upstanding citizens, eager to work hard and pay back to the society that invested in them…

  2. Rob says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Given the effort nominally Hindu India put into helping Islamic Bangladesh achieve independence from Islamic Pakistan in the 1970s, I find it galling.
    Like Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan Bangladesh has squandered a window of opportunity to exit into modernity and instead taken up the old destructive ways.

    • Rob says

      Jan 23, 2016 at 2:28 am

      Oh and I forgot to mention Gaza in my list of missed opportunities.
      Prior to the Israeli withdrawal the hype about what the Palestinian Authority was going to do, bordered on the fantastic. The ‘Paris of the Eastern Mediterranean’ was one I recall.
      Instead they spend the money they were donated on rockets and tunnels and to complete the race to bottom, they voted out the PA and installed Hamas.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    It appears the elites in Singapore are neither naïve nor willfully blind about jihad.

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    “…The workers were being groomed to return to their home country to wage holy war and had studied booklets on assassination techniques, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement…”

    In Singapore it is acceptable to deal with the Jihad issue with straightforward language and a rapid response, which is why other developed countries have quite a bit to learn from their example. Furthermore, it has a local Muslim population of 15 percent, making it on a per capita basis about twice as sizeable as in France or The Netherlands, yet it has successfully contained and minimised Jihad Supremacist aspirations.

  5. nicu says

    Jan 23, 2016 at 12:13 am

    Down with all Mosques !

    ONLY radicals go in there !!!

    same with so called ” culture – clubs ” !

  6. dlbrand says

    Jan 23, 2016 at 2:30 am

    “Singapore deports 26 Muslims who supported the Islamic State, studied assassination techniques, recruited in mosque”

    Where did they send them to?

    Let me guess: U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A! (if not today, com’n soon.)

  7. TheDane says

    Jan 23, 2016 at 6:09 am

    “Deports?” Why on Earth don’t they eliminate them?? Shame on Singapore. In Syria and Iraq, the West is working hard to cut them down in number, so why let them roam free, these critters? They are as dangerous to life as the Plague, and now they will probably go to Europe and seek asylum.

  8. richard courtemanche says

    Jan 23, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Bravo! For other countries to emulate.

  9. Kevin says

    Jan 23, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    The Bangladeshi’s Maintain and Clean the Airports Bathrooms and Passageways in CHANGI AIRPORT Wash and Clean the outside of Singapore Airline Planes.. Bangla’s also Clean East Coast parks at 5-9am every morning.. Many Banglas are Cleaning the Tanks of ships before welding begin. They replaced Many Sri Lankans

  10. David says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 8:44 am

    Again I ask; “When will our “leaders” in DC come to their senses?”
    Will they ever admit the TRUTH? In todays world muslims are the same as NAZI’s were in the mid 20th century! And it took a HUGE GLOBAL CONFLICT to free the world from a catastrophic fate!
    These people we laughingly call our “leaders” must be made to pull their heads out of their RECTUMS and start taking action NOW!
    IT IS NOT TOO LATE!

  11. SpiritOf1683 says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    Just as I thought. If any place is to become the last bastion of common sense, it is Singapore. We know that any Muslim who dares to attack any infidel women in that neck of the woods will get a rattan cane across his bare backside before being kicked out. That place certainly hasn’t succumbed to the Weestern disease of political correctness.

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