Twitter campaign for ‘Lest Me Forget (Manus)’ campaign on Anzac Day backed by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Controversial Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has shown her support for a Twitter campaign to repost her infamous Anzac Day post.

Ms Abdel-Magied retweeted a suggestion for thousands of people to tweet ‘Lest we forget (Manus)’ on April 25.

She drew widespread ire after tweeting the same thing on Anzac Day last year.

Ms Abdel-Magied sent the latest tweet out to her 55,000 followers on Friday.

Last year, the Sudanese-born former engineer was slammed nationally for her ‘disrespectful’ and ‘malicious’ comment after she used the national day to draw attention to other conflicts across the world. 

Controversial Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has shown her support for a Twitter campaign to repost her ‘vile’ Anzac Day post

Ms Abdel-Magied retweeted a suggestion for thousands of people to tweet 'Lest we forget (Manus)' on April 25

Ms Abdel-Magied retweeted a suggestion for thousands of people to tweet ‘Lest we forget (Manus)’ on April 25

‘Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine)’, Ms Abdel-Magied infamously wrote on Anzac Day 2017.

The Brisbane-raised writer moved to London months after the heated backlash she received following the Twitter post – which she quickly deleted.

‘It was brought to my attention that my last post was disrespectful, and for that, I apologise unreservedly,’ she said.

However, on Remembrance Day just seven months later, the Muslim activist was again slammed for a similar post: ‘#LestWeForget (Manus)’.

The former Queensland Young Australian of the Year was last week denied entry into the United States at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport because she didn’t have a work visa. 

She suggested U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials sent her back to London because of her skin colour.

The Brisbane-raised writer moved to London months after the heated backlash she received following the Twitter post - which she quickly deleted

The Brisbane-raised writer moved to London months after the heated backlash she received following the Twitter post – which she quickly deleted

'Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine)', Ms Abdel-Magied infamously wrote on Anzac Day 2017

‘Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine)’, Ms Abdel-Magied infamously wrote on Anzac Day 2017

In a satellite chat from London, she made the claim to Pen America, who had planned to pay her to deliver two New York lectures titled, ‘No Country For Young Muslim Women’.

‘If you are, again, a person of privilege in terms of you are a white, straight male, for example, going through border security you have a sense of, kind of, assuredness that the system has your back,’ she told American Muslim activist Amani Al-Khatahtbeh on Wednesday night. 

However, U.S Customs said Abdel-Magied was deported for having a tourist and business conference visa, known as a B1-B2, instead of a working visa. 

Ms Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born former ABC-TV host, said minorities often feared for their lives going through border security.

‘It’s a very different experience as a person like that who is accustomed to understanding their place in the world versus someone who has never known that there is a very real danger to their lives and their livelihood because of the situation at hand,’ she said. 

The former Queensland Young Australian of the Year was last week denied entry into the United States at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport because she didn't have a work visa

The former Queensland Young Australian of the Year was last week denied entry into the United States at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport because she didn’t have a work visa

 



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