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Islamic radical preacher Junaid Thorne reportedly has Sydney home raided









Australian federal police searched a home in Bass Hill but would not give details of reasons for raid

















An Australian federal police spokesman said the raid was ‘part of an ongoing investigation’. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP



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The Sydney home of a self-proclaimed Islamic sheikh, Junaid Thorne, has reportedly been raided by federal police.
An Australian federal police (AFP) spokesman confirmed a search warrant had been carried out at a Bass Hill home in the city’s west on Thursday.
A 25-year-old man in Perth was issued with a court attendance notice, but his court date has not been fixed.
The ABC identified the man as Thorne, an Islamic preacher who had been living in Perth.
The AFP spokesman would not specify what the raid was related to, saying only that it was “part of an ongoing investigation”.
Thorne, who was banned from preaching in West Australian prisons last year, has attracted a following since he was deported from Saudi Arabia in July 2013.
He provoked anger online after tweeting his support for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last week.
The known radical said insulting a religion was likely to cause a backlash, even if it was done under freedom of speech.
“If you want to enjoy ‘freedom of speech’ with no limits, expect others to exercise ‘freedom of action’,” Thorne tweeted.
Thorne also attracted controversy after his comments defending the terrorism suspect Numan Haider, who was shot dead in Melbourne after stabbing two police officers last year.



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