Oh hell yeah.
If you didn’t catch this week’s episode of Q&A, Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie copped a thorough dressing down by TV presenter, author, former Queensland Young Australian of the Year and Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied. (Feel unaccomplished, yet?)
Essentially, Lambie was mouthing off (again) about Islam in the wake of Trump’s immigration ban. However, it was when she declared that “all people found to be practising Sharia law” should be kicked out of the country that things really took a turn, with Abdel-Magied schooling Lambie on what Sharia actually is. (For starters, it’s not a law.)
Is it time to define new rules so that migration doesn’t disturb the peace? @JacquiLambie & @yassmin_a disagree vehemently #QandA pic.twitter.com/nRXyj3p2hG
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) February 13, 2017
Abdel-Magied has had a hell of week from the right-wing factions of this country. Just this morning, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said she must have been “blindfolded” during her tour of the Middle East and North Africa last year to declare Islam to be a feminist religion, and Bill Leak depicted her in one of his oh-so-charming cartoons (which we’re not going to publish, because honestly, what is the point).
But she’s found an unlikely but insanely big-name supporter: Solange Knowles, singer, sister to Bey, and outspoken feminist, particularly when it comes to issues affecting women of colour.
Yassmin Abdel Magied….
You made my morning— solange knowles (@solangeknowles) February 16, 2017
Abdel-Magied reacted how most of us would to getting a similar public shout-out.
@solangeknowles OMG. THIS!!
— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) February 16, 2017
@solangeknowles PS Thanks, and power to you sista. Keep fighting the good fight, inshallah.
— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) February 16, 2017
This happened. https://t.co/4fCKJcokCA
— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) February 16, 2017
Photo: Q&A.
