Australian Muslim activist fights Twitter 'troll army'

February 28, 2015 16:58

Mariam Veiszadeh, an Australian lawyer and founder of the Islamophobia Register, which tracks instances of abuse against Muslims, has become a target for Twitter trolls.

"The reality is people don't abuse me just because I'm a woman or because my name is Mariam or because I'm Middle-Eastern. They abuse me because I have a scarf on my head and because I'm a Muslim," Veiszadeh told CNN.

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