Controversial activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has posted a photograph of herself at Melbourne Airport as she migrates from Australia to the UK.
The engineer, author and TV presenter – who caused uproar with a post about Anzac Day earlier this year – shared the image on Twitter, saying: ‘It’s a beautiful day for migrating. Catch ya, Australia! Khair, inshallah.’
Ms Abdel-Magied’s picture, which showed her holding a black suitcase as she smiled and waved towards the camera, was ‘liked’ more than 500 times.
The contentious engineer, author and presenter can be seen with a small black suitcase in hand waving at the camera, with a caption saying: ‘It’s a beautiful day for migrating. Catch ya, Australia! Khair, inshallah’
Despite removing the post and issuing an apology, it sparked an escalating series of events that Ms Abdel-Magied said left her feeling isolated
A woman by the name of Daisy replied to the tweet with: ‘Yay! You are sooo welcome in the UK, and don’t listen to any ignorant knob heads telling you otherwise!’
Miss Abdel-Magied replied: ‘Thanks gurl!’
The young activist, 26, also posted a black and white portrait to Instagram signalling her departure from the country she calls home.
‘So I’m sitting at the airport, looking ahead to an unknown new adventure… peering through the opaque curtain that cloaks the future, squinting.
‘It’s almost as if I cannot bear to think about it because the possibilities are impossible to imagine. Subhanallah. All I can have is faith, inshallah…to believe in Allah’s plan, to know this is written, to trust that it all is as it should be.
The furore was sparked when she took to Facebook to post the message ‘LEST. WE. FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)’
‘Australia! I’m going to miss you all… for all the drama, Australians have been good to me – you are why I am who I am today. But what’s that quote about if you love something, let it go…?’
Ms Abdel-Magied caused a stir on Anzac Day when she took to Facebook to post the message ‘LEST. WE. FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)’
Despite removing the post and issuing an apology, it sparked an escalating series of events that Ms Abdel-Magied said left her feeling isolated.
The 2015 Young Queenslander of the Year revealed in a speech at the Sydney Writers Festival that she had also received harsh criticism over the post from a number of politicians
‘I love Australia, I’m super patriotic. Yet I feel like I’ve been duped, like I’ve been sold this false sense of belonging,’ she said at the time.
The 2015 Young Queenslander of the Year revealed in a speech at the Sydney Writers Festival that she had also received harsh criticism over the post from a number of politicians.
‘I posted an apology very quickly afterwards, but one of our senior cabinet members said “Well Yassmin is un-Australian for saying this”,’ she said.
She also later said she had been labelled Australia’s ‘most publicly hated Muslim’ and said she felt ‘betrayed by my country’ following the reaction, which included vile death threats.
‘I posted an apology very quickly afterwards, but one of our senior cabinet members said ‘Well Yassmin is un-Australian for saying this’,’ she said
The mechanical engineer’s departure was announced in a press release from Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop two months ago however no reason was ever given for her swift move
George Christensen, the Member for Dawson, was among those who hit out at Ms Abdel-Magied following her post, taking to Twitter to suggest she leave the country.
‘Yasmin should no longer on the public broadcaster’s tax-funded payroll. Self-deportation should also be considered,’ he wrote.
The mechanical engineer’s departure was announced in a press release from Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop two months ago however no reason was ever given for her swift move.