The 14-year-old is the youngest person to be detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). It is also the first detention involving Composite Violent Extremism (CoVE), previously known as “salad bar” extremism.
This refers to a form of violent extremism where individuals subscribe to multiple, and sometimes conflicting, extremist ideologies.
The boy’s radicalisation journey began with first-person shooter (FPS) games on online gaming platform Roblox, which recreated real-life school shootings, such as the 1999 Columbine High School incident.
Dust off the old “killer video games make shooters” narrative boys, it was a hit the first time around