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Omar Bensaidi discusses the case of Muhammad Junaid Thorne who was sentenced to a minimum of three months in Supermax for attempting to fly inter-state using a false name. Omar discusses the case at greater length in an article published in New Matilda, 'Building Muslim Scarecrows' (newmatilda.com/2015/09/22/building-muslim-scarecrows). This lecture was delivered as part of 'The Racial State', a course taught in the Cultural and Social Analysis Major of Western Sydney University by Alana Lentin.
Omar Bensaidi discusses the case of Muhammad Junaid Thorne who was sentenced to a minimum of three months in Supermax for attempting to fly inter-state using a false name. Omar discusses the case at greater length in an article published in New Matilda, 'Building Muslim Scarecrows' (newmatilda.com/2015/09/22/building-muslim-scarecrows). This lecture was delivered as part of 'The Racial State', a course taught in the Cultural and Social Analysis Major of Western Sydney University by Alana Lentin.










