Two self-radicalised Singaporeans had been detained for trying to make their way to Syria to join the dreaded terrorist group Islamic State and engage in violence there. Muhammad Shamin Mohamed Sidek and Muhammad Harith Jailani were detained in two separate cases in August this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said. Investigations showed that they had harboured the intention to make their way to Syria to join IS and engage in violence there, MHA said. Shamin was influenced by ISIS’ online radical propaganda and was earlier convicted and sentenced to three months’ jail for inciting religious violence through his pro-IS postings on social media.