A 22-year-old woman in Singapore has become the first female citizen in the country to be detained under the Internal Security Act for radicalism after she planned to join the ISIS in Syria. Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah Al Ansari, a contract infant-care assistant with a pre-school programme, was detained in June this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Monday. Her radicalisation started in 2013 through online propaganda related to the ISIS group, the MHA said.
“She began to believe that ISIS represented the true spirit of Islam. Her radicalisation deepened over time,” the Ministry said.
Since 2014, Izzah actively posted and shared pro-ISIS material online. Several of her social media platforms were removed by administrators because of such content, but she created new ones.