Q & A activist asked radical Islamic group for advice after spat with Jacqui Lambie

A CONTROVERSIAL Q & A activist sought advice from the spokesman of an anti-gay and anti-women Islamic group, after she tried to defend sharia law and claimed Islam was the most feminist religion.

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A CONTROVERSIAL Q & A activist sought advice from the spokesman of an anti-gay and anti-women Islamic group after she tried to defend sharia law and claimed Islam was the most feminist religion.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied commented on a post about the episode on the personal Facebook page of Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi, asking how she could have better made her case while appearing on the ABC panel.

Ms Abdel-Magied came under fire after getting into an argument with fellow panellist Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie about sharia law in Australia.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied had a spirited debate with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie.

The heated encounter began when an audience member asked whether there should be new rules on migration in order to avoid community conflict.

Ms Lambie said anyone who supported sharia law should be deported from the country, causing Ms Abdel-Magied to ask her if she indeed knew what it was.

Ms Abdel-Magied then claimed Islam was the “most feminist religion’’, citing the fact that Muslim women do not take their husband’s last names.

But that was a moot point for Lambie, who said: “The fact is we have one law in this country and it is the Australian law — not sharia law, not in my country, not in my day,” she said.

In the fallout from the show, Ms Abdel-Magied reached out to Doureihi

Wassim Doureihi speaking at public demonstration. Picture: Britta Campion

“Salams! Well, I am always happy to take feedback. What specifically was problematic and how can I do better in the future inshallah?,” she commented on Mr Doureihi’s Facebook post about the show.

“I am young, and willing to learn, inshallah. Trying to do the best with the platform I can, Allah willing,” she said.

Mr Doureihi thanked her for her “tireless” efforts, but went on to tell her where she had erred.

“In a nutshell, you’ve ended up framing Islam through a secular lens, aimed at a secular people and conscious of the presence of a secular government,” he said.

“The end result was always going to be ugly,” he said.

He subsequently suggested they continue the conversation in a private chat.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied in 2015.

Meanwhile a change.org petition for the ABC to publicly condemn and sack Ms Abdel-Magied has garnered 11,000 signatures.

“Abdel-Magied has publicly stood by her comments and released a video blatantly lying to the public about the merits of sharia law and the oppressive impact it has on non-Muslim groups, homosexuals and women,” the petition said.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir group has courted controversy in the past for its stances on a range of issues.

In February 2014, spokesman Uthman Badar defended the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to a 26-year-old man.

He also faced the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after which he told women to sit at the back while men sat at the front of a lecture room in 2014.