Yassmin Abdel-Magied (via Twitter)
A young Australian activist says she's been deported from the United States mere hours after arriving on a B1/B2 visa. Yassmin Abdel-Magied was visiting the US as a speaker at the PEN America World Voices Festival, set to appear on two panels: “The M Word: No Country for Young Muslim Women” and “Take Back the Net: Fighting Online Hate.”According to tweets she posted this morning, Abdel-Magied was interrogated at Minneapolis airport had her Australian passport taken away. "Roughly three hours” after arriving, she was back on a plane headed home.“Plane is up”, she tweeted at 10:30 AM (AEST). “See y’all on the other side, inshallah.”Abdel-Magied is based in London, where she moved in 2017 after facing intense media scrutiny over making a personal Facebook post on Anzac Day that read “"LEST.WE.FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)"She also drew controversy in 2016 over comments she made on ABC show The Drum about sharia law, saying it “allows for multiple interpretations… it’s about mercy, it’s about kindness.”Prior to these incidents Abdel-Magied, who worked as a mechanical engineer before embarking on a media and acting career, received multiple national and state honours, including Queensland Young Australian of the Year in 2015.