Should We Be Berlin or Singapore?

In the ’70s and ’80s, Singapore tended to get a bad rap from the lefty types: ‘they’ll make you cut your hair, man!’ OK, smelly hippy: and?

The left today are similarly having conniptions about El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, who has completely ignored the ‘human rights’ of gang savages, locking them up en masse. El Salvadorans are just happy that the country’s once appalling murder rate has almost evaporated overnight. ‘Dictator, shmictator’: Bukele enjoys approval ratings of 85 to 90 per cent.

And this brings us back to Singapore: like El Salvador, they know exactly how to deal with murderous fanatics.

Singapore authorities said on Monday they had arrested three teenagers over separate plots to carry out shooting, stabbing and bomb attacks, warning of the threat of “youth radicalisation” in the security-conscious city state.

The three boys, detained between April and June, had been “self-radicalised” online, adopting violent extremist ideologies, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said.

They are held under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial.

Compare that to how ‘human rights’-obsessed Western countries handle swivel-eyed Muslims with kid gloves.

The Islamic murderer who mowed down a Berlin Pride parade had openly declared his allegiance to the Islamic State. He even fled Germany for his parents’ native Lebanon. German authorities helpfully brought him back, made him pinkie-swear not to behead anybody and left him free to murder and maim.

Another demented follower of the ‘Prophet’ went on a stabbing rampage in Paris, openly shouting, “It is Allah who commanded me”. Police and government have “urged caution over interpreting the suspect’s remarks”.

No wonder these fellows are so angry: they keep telling us why they do what they do and the government, police and legacy media simply refuse to believe them. That’s got to get your thobe in a bunch eventually.

Singapore, meanwhile, isn’t messing around.

The 14-year-old student arrested in May for terrorism-related activities is the youngest to be detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

The next youngest is 15 years old. They were among three self-radicalised Singaporeans aged 14 to 19, who were issued with detention orders recently under the ISA for planning to carry out separate attacks here.

The three are not the only teenagers to face Internal Security Department (ISD) investigations […]

In the last 10 years, 23 young people aged between 14 and 20 have been dealt with under ISA.

Anywhere in the West, they’d have been asked to pretty-please do a ‘de-radicalisation’ course – at best. More likely, they’d just be told they’re the victims of racism and ‘Islamophobia’, and showered with offers to appear at ‘writer’s festivals’ and given a taxpayer-funded cab ride to appear on an ABC talk show.

That’s if they weren’t given an on-air job as an ABC presenter.