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The state and the right to grieve death of Khamenei

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Should any government decide who a religious community can mourn?
This episode examines the controversial proposal by former PM Scott Morrison to regulate Islamic preachers in Australia, sparked by Shia Muslim communities mourning Ayatollah Khamenei. Legal scholar Dr Renee Barker analyzes the implications for religious freedom, compares Australia's pluralistic model with European approaches like France's, and discusses the complex line between protecting communities and state overreach.

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A careful argument about grief, power, and where religious freedom stops.

This episode takes a hard public question seriously: when grief happens in public, what can the state ask of a religious community, and what should it leave alone?

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Hear how mourning, religious liberty, and state power collide in one sharp public argument.

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