Twitter users back Yassmin Abdel-Magied's Anzac Day campaign
Controversial Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied appears to have gained support on Twitter for the #lestweforgetmanus campaign she infamously kicked off last year.
On Friday Ms Abdel-Magied retweeted a suggestion for thousands of people to tweet 'Lest we forget (Manus)' on April 25.
And her call hasn't gone unanswered.
On Friday Ms Abdel-Magied retweeted a suggestion for thousands of people to tweet 'Lest we forget (Manus)' on April 25.
'And think about paying respect to Australia's obligations under the Convention against Torture #Lestweforgetmanus #Nauru,' one person tweeted.
'#LestWeForget We're told to remember wars that weren't of our making We're told to remember the history of other nations While we ignore our own genocide & ethnic cleansing Wake up people #LestWeForgetAboriginals #LestWeForgetManus #LestWeForgetNauru,' tweeted another.
Others put their spin on the hashtag - but sent the same message.
'#AnzacDay Let's remember the horror of #Manus and Nauru where Australian government ministers inflict daily cruelty on vulnerable fellow human beings. Reflect on the lack of humanity in this nation.'
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.
'And think about paying respect to Australia's obligations under the Convention against Torture #Lestweforgetmanus #Nauru,' one person tweeted.
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
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
'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.