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work_mqs4jkymnnaoxnwovxv2332xwy	REBECCA RUTH GOULD	Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America	2017.0	26	.pdf	application/pdf	12006	759	52	examine the case of Muslim American dissident Tarek Mehanna, sentenced to seventeen claims as intellectual predecessors, above all Henry David Thoreau and John Brown, while situating this dissent within a long history of American activism , at www.thenation.com/article/how-tarek-mehanna-went-prison-thought-crime. http://www.thenation.com/article/how-tarek-mehanna-went-prison-thought-crime limits of the American justice system, Mehanna's case marks a new, yet familiar, moment in the history of American civil disobedience. handling of Thoreau's early essay on civil disobedience in his art before considering how Thoreau mediated Mehanna's encounter with John Brown in cited by Mehanna, Thoreau argues that no coercion from the state can override the individual's ethical prerogative. ultimately prevail over the state's violence, Thoreau and Mehanna cultivate Mehanna's sentencing statement contains other allusions to Thoreau, particularly to the latter's writing on John Brown. Both Mehanna and Brown openly advocate violence in ways Thoreau did Thoreau's description of John Brown as "the most American of us all"	./cache/work_mqs4jkymnnaoxnwovxv2332xwy.pdf	./txt/work_mqs4jkymnnaoxnwovxv2332xwy.txt