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Mariam Veiszadeh has quit as the head of Islamophobia Register Australia lobby
Lawyer said term 'Islamophobia' was still misunderstood, especially by ignorant
Her replacement from the U.S. previously criticised FBI for going undercover
Brice Hamack was a co-ordinator with the Council on American Islamic Relations

By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 10:05 EDT, 24 July 2017 | Updated: 10:06 EDT, 24 July 2017

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A Muslim lawyer has quit a group she founded three years ago to raise awareness of anti-Islamic hatred, with an FBI critic from the U.S. taking over.

Mariam Veiszadeh has stepped aside from running Islamophobia Register Australia (IRA) after enduring death threats and months of cyber-bullying.

She left a parting shot on her Facebook page at bigots, arguing that raising awareness of anti-Muslim discrimination remained a challenge as it was in 2014.

Mariam Veiszadeh stepped aside running Islamophobia Register Australia which she started

The wife of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's media director Ehsssan Veiszadeh had endured months of cyber bullying

Mariam Veiszadeh told her Facebook followers Islamophobia was a misunderstood term

'Islamophobia was a misunderstood term (and still is but mostly by people who are willfully ignorant),' she said.

'Little was known about its actual scale and incidents were barely publicised.'

The hijab-wearing Shia Muslim, who is married to New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian's media director Ehssan Veiszadeh, has been replaced by Brice Hamack, a former civil rights co-ordinator with the Council on American Islamic Relations.

As a San Francisco-based activist in March 2015, he accused the FBI of unfairly targeting Muslims by baiting potential terrorists.

'These situations begin with an FBI informant going into mosque Eids and playing the role of the instigators, standing up at community gatherings and saying, ‘Who wants to help me take down America?,' he said on Facebook.

'Who wants to engage in jihad with me? Who wants to fights for your brothers and sisters overseas?'.

He has been a grants officer with Legal Aid in Canberra since November last year.