Yassmin wanders off yonder as controversial Muslim activist heads to London

In February this year, this was the take of the late Bill Leak on Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Middle East speaking tour.

Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied is leaving Oz. Twitter, yesterday:

#GearingUpForANewAdventure. Folks, it’s been fun, but I’m off to partake in the Aussie rite of passage — I’m moving to London! 💖 #inshallah

Mate, you said you were back in the ring? Abdel-Magied on Facebook, June 29:

Staying silent left a vacuum that other voices gleefully filled with hate and vitriol that was deeply racist … If I stay silent, then “they” win. Then others get to define the narrative. Then those with deep institutional power are able to silence (and) I can’t abide that.

Yassmin didn’t like our parliament. Speaking at the Australian National University, June 21:

The traditional parliamentary system, I mean look at the photo of the House of Representatives … It does not represent anyone.

Yassmin Abdel Magied’s controversial Facebook post.

She didn’t like Anzac Day … Abdel-Magied on Facebook, April 25:

Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine).

But, gosh, we’ll miss her. Abdel-Magied on the ABC’s Q&A, February 13:

Islam to me is the most feminist religion.

As much as her Hizb ut-Tahrir mates. The Australian, February 20:

The activist who proclaimed Islam was “the most feminist religion” reached out to the spokesman for anti-gay and anti-women group Hizb ut-Tahrir in the wake of her fight on ABC TV’s program Q&A for advice on how she could have framed her argu­ment better.

Come home and see us when you can, Yassmin. The Beatles, May 26, 1967:

She’s leaving home / Bye, bye.

And Bill Shorten honours Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu in Sydney, February 22:

… there is a fundamental point of agreement in this country between the Prime Minister and myself — and between our parties for many decades. It is our strong support for the right of the people of Israel to live in peace, within secure borders.

But how can Bibi really rely on Bill? The Australian, yesterday:

Labor will formally abandon almost 40 years of explicit ideological support for Israel with a resolution expected to be passed at this month’s NSW state conference, a move that would ultimately bind Bill Shorten to an unconditional recognition of a Palestinian state …

Israel will need “secure borders” if Palestine grows in stature. The Jerusalem Post, February 6:

Israeli security authorities have uncovered a Hamas cell that planned to carry out terrorist attacks in the West Bank and within Israel …

ALP-run parliaments are backing Palestine. A motion that passed the South Australian lower house on June 22:

(d) calls on the commonwealth government to recognise the State of Palestine (as we have recognised the State of Israel) and announce the conditions and time lines to achieve such recognition.

While US state houses are defending our decades-long ally Israel against anti-Semitic extremists. Jerusalem Post, April 21:

The Texas House of Representatives … unanimously passed legislation that bars the state from doing business with companies involved in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting the Jewish state.