“Both men became radicalized after listening to a Batam-based religious radio station called Radio Hang. The station, which claims a following in Johor Baru and Singapore, sometimes features speakers who preach extreme religious views.” Why was the peaceful, benign Islam that Rosli Hamzah and Mohamed Omar Mahadi presumably learned in their mosque in Singapore not able to withstand the appeal of these “speakers who preach extreme religious views”? Did local imams warn Muslims that Radio Hang was preaching that Islam that is not Islam, and teach them how to counter what they would hear on it? Why not?

“Singaporeans planning to join Islamic State given detention orders,” by Lim Yan Liang, The Straits Times, August 21, 2016: