Susan Carland sends $1 to the United Nations Children's Fund for every hate tweet she receives
Carland, 34, says she is getting so many hateful messages from anti-Islamic people
She says Koran guided her on 'how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good'
Koran guided me on how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good, said a Muslim woman who donates $1 to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for every hate tweet she receives.
"As a Muslim woman, people from many different quarters are eager to tell me how to dress and how to act. They also seem determined to tell me what I believe. I regularly get tweets and Facebook messages from the brave freedom-fighters behind determinedly anonymous accounts telling me that, as a Muslim woman, I love oppression, murder, war, and sexism," Susan Carland, 34, wrote on The Age.
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At first, she tried different ways to fight them.
“I’d tried blocking, muting, engaging and ignoring, but none of them felt like I was embodying the Koranic injunction of driving off darkness with light,” Carland, a sociologist with a PhD at Melbourne’s Monash University, said.
When all else fails, she came up with the idea of donating $1 to UNICEF for every hate tweet she receives.
"The idea of donating $1 to UNICEF for every hate-filled tweet I received came to me. I particularly liked the idea of giving to UNICEF, as so often they were assisting children who were in horrific situations that were the direct outcome of hate – war, poverty due to greed, injustice, violence. These children seemed like the natural recipients for the antidote to hate. And donating to them every time I was abused felt like tangible good in response to virtual hate," she stated.
The UNICEF already thanked the kind-hearted woman.
"Thank you for your support! You've turned hate into something wonderful: education, health care, and protection for kids," UNICEF Australia tweeted
Carland, 34, says she is getting so many hateful messages from anti-Islamic people
She says Koran guided her on 'how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good'
Koran guided me on how to turn tweets from trolls into a force for good, said a Muslim woman who donates $1 to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for every hate tweet she receives.
"As a Muslim woman, people from many different quarters are eager to tell me how to dress and how to act. They also seem determined to tell me what I believe. I regularly get tweets and Facebook messages from the brave freedom-fighters behind determinedly anonymous accounts telling me that, as a Muslim woman, I love oppression, murder, war, and sexism," Susan Carland, 34, wrote on The Age.
The …show more content…
At first, she tried different ways to fight them.
“I’d tried blocking, muting, engaging and ignoring, but none of them felt like I was embodying the Koranic injunction of driving off darkness with light,” Carland, a sociologist with a PhD at Melbourne’s Monash University, said.
When all else fails, she came up with the idea of donating $1 to UNICEF for every hate tweet she receives.
"The idea of donating $1 to UNICEF for every hate-filled tweet I received came to me. I particularly liked the idea of giving to UNICEF, as so often they were assisting children who were in horrific situations that were the direct outcome of hate – war, poverty due to greed, injustice, violence. These children seemed like the natural recipients for the antidote to hate. And donating to them every time I was abused felt like tangible good in response to virtual hate," she stated.
The UNICEF already thanked the kind-hearted woman.
"Thank you for your support! You've turned hate into something wonderful: education, health care, and protection for kids," UNICEF Australia tweeted