Why doesn't the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims who go to those Islamic centers rise up and rebuke Thorne for being a misunderstander of Islam? "Perth man Junaid Thorne deported from Saudi Arabia promotes jihad," by Aleisha Orr for WA Today, January 7:
A Perth man who was deported from Saudi Arabia last year when his brother was accused of terrorism offences has reportedly been delivering lectures encouraging jihadists. Junaid Thorne, 24 criticised the federal government for not doing enough to help him and his brother get out of the country when his brother Shayden was arrested.
He went into hiding in Saudia Arabia in fear of also being arrested before handing himself in to authorities and being sent home to Australia. Shayden, 25, has been in custody since November 2011. In May last year Shayden was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for extremist material that was found on a laptop in his possession, but maintained his innocence, saying he had borrowed the computer from a masjid, or mosque, in which he was staying.Read it all here.............