Mohammed Junaid Thorne is an Australian Islamic preacher of Aboriginal heritage from Perth, Western Australia.
[2][3] In August 2015 Thorne was sentenced to between four and eight months jail for travelling on an aircraft under a false name, and using fake ID to obtain his ticket.
[2] For his part in the 2016 "Tinnie terror plot", Shayden Thorne was sentenced to three years and ten months jail.
[7] Thorne is on the Australian Federal Government's terrorism watchlist for his inflammatory social media posts and for lectures indicating support for Islamic State.
[1] On 15 January 2015 Thorne's home in Bass Hill, New South Wales was raided by Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers.
Shiddiquzzuman was sentenced to four months in custody, while Issak received a "community-based order" earlier the same year in Perth.
He is being held in segregation at Goulburn Correctional Centres supermax facility after being classified with the most secure rating, AA.
Thorne has claimed that no connection exists between the Australian and German Millatu Ibrahim groups, stating "just because the name is the same... doesn't imply that they're the same or that they know each other.
"[2] Thorne has been critically cited in the media for providing justification for the terrorist attack on the French Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, in which 12 people were killed.