SINGAPORE - The rehabilitation of the 16-year old student influenced by far-right ideology will draw on best practices gained in steering previous youth terror detainees away from extremism, the Internal Security Department(ISD) has said.
This includes facilitating his studies - in consultation with his parents and former school - while he is in detention, and getting tutors to help him prepare for his national exams this year.
A mentor has also been identified for him, the ISD said on Wednesday (Feb 3).
In addition, the department is working with the National Council of Churches of Singapore, which is keen to be involved in the youth s rehabilitation, to identify a suitable Christian counsellor for him.
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Worshippers waiting to enter the Assyafaah Mosque in Sembawang yesterday. The sermons there and at the Yusof Ishak Mosque in Woodlands were delivered by the two deputy muftis - Dr Mohammad Hannan Hassan and Ustaz Mohd Murat Md Aris respectively - who also spoke to worshippers.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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President of NCCS Reverend Keith Lai (second from left) meeting the Mufti of Singapore Dr Nazirudin Mohd Nasir (second from right) with other Christian and Muslim leaders, on Jan 28, 2021. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Christian and Muslim religious leaders in Singapore met on Thursday (Jan 28) to reaffirm the mutual trust and understanding between the two religious communities and condemn the plot by a Protestant Christian youth to attack Muslims at two mosques here.
The meeting was held at the Yusof Ishak Mosque in Woodlands, one of two sites targeted by a 16-year-old Singaporean of Indian ethnicity who was inspired by the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, a tragedy which claimed 51 lives in New Zealand.