A patriotic Muslim sheikh has emerged from hiding to call for an Islamic ABC presenter to be sacked for publishing a "disrespectful" comment about Anzac Day.
Adelaide sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi and federal National MP George Christensen are demanding Yassmin Abdel-Magied lose her job as host of ABC News 24's Australia Wide programme for her inappropriate Facebook post.
"Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine)," Abdel-Magied said on Tuesday afternoon, the Australian reported.
However, the ABC is resisting calls for her to be sacked arguing her views "do not represent the ABC".
Abdel-Magied was a national finalist for Young Australian of the Year in 2015 for her work as a member of the Federal Anzac Centenary Commemoration Youth Working Group, the Daily Mail reported.
On Tuesday, the Sudanese-born ABC presenter and Muslim youth activist quickly deleted the post and said: "It was brought to my attention that my last post was disrespectful, and for that, I apologise unreservedly."
However, Tawhidi, who emerged from hiding on Tuesday morning to lay a wreath at Two Wells, north of Adelaide, said the ABC needed to distance itself from Abdel-Magied.
"She must be sacked immediately and the ABC must release a statement disassociating themselves from the opinions of Yassmin and condemning her," he told Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday night.
"Failure to do so will only add to the long list of reasons as to why many Australians believe the ABC should not be receiving any government funding.
"Yassmin's statement had hurt many Australians and brought tears to my eyes."
Tawhidhi added it was unacceptable for her to "hijack the Anzac memory for political and religious reasons".
"I believe such disgusting statements do nothing but add more pain to the hearts of Australian families who have lost their brave children and only gives aid and comfort to Isis and other radical groups," he said.
"How dare anyone compare a group of unknown individuals, some of whom could be radicals, trying to enter this country, with the pure blood and sacrifice of our heroic soldiers? Such a comparison is invalid and strongly condemned."
Christensen, the member for Dawson in north Queensland said the Sudanese-born Muslim activist should leave Australia.
"Yassmin should no longer be on the public broadcaster's tax-funded payroll," he tweeted.
"Self-deportation should also be considered."
A change.org petition, posted on Tuesday by Sydney man Mark Klein, has attracted more than 400 supporters calling for ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack Abdel-Magied.
"We, the taxpayers, who fund the ABC, call on its managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack Abdel-Magied for her despicable insult," it said.
"It is bad enough that she would use Anzac Day to sully the sacrifice of our servicemen and women. To keep her on the public teat after this outrage would be to rub salt into the wound."
An ABC spokesman late on Tuesday night resisted calls for her to be sacked.
"Abdel-Magied is also engaged in a range of other activities and work that is not related to the ABC. Her views and opinions in that capacity are her own and do not represent those of the ABC," he said.
"Ms Abdel-Magied is a part-time presenter on the ABC programme Australia Wide, introducing stories done by ABC reporters from around the country.
"When presenting for the ABC she works in accordance with ABC editorial and other policies."
In February, another change.org petition calling for her sacking amassed more than 31,000 signatures after Abdel-Magied told the national broadcaster's Q&A programme that Islam is the "most feminist religion" in a clash with Senator Jacqui Lambie.
She had also said sharia law to her was praying five times a day as a Muslim, neglecting to mention how it is also a legal system based on fundamentalist Islamic principles.
After that TV appearance, it emerged she sought advice from Wassim Doureihi, a spokesman in Australia for Islamist extremist group Hizb-ut Tahrir, which is banned in Germany, The Netherlands and Muslim-majority nations including Bangladesh, Pakistan and even Saudi Arabia.
Apart from hosting an ABC programme, Abdel-Magied has also been paid by taxpayers to tour repressive Muslim-majority nations, including Saudi Arabia, which flogs women for adultery, to promote her book.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has declined to reveal the true cost of that trip.
Prominent ex-Muslim turned Islam critic, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has critcised the Australian government for promoting Abdel-Magied as a "moderate" Muslim.
In 2015, SBS sports reporter Scott McIntyre was sacked for describing Australians who commemorated Anzac Day as "poorly read, largely white, nationalist drinkers and gamblers".
"Remembering the summary execution, widespread rape and theft committed by these 'brave' Anzacs in Egypt, Palestine and Japan," he wrote to his 30,000 followers.
"Not forgetting that the largest single-day terrorist attacks in history were committed by this nation & their allies in Hiroshima & Nagasaki."
Before becoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull took the unusual step of criticising the presenter on Twitter.
"Difficult to think of more offensive or inappropriate comments," Turnbull tweeted.