Muslim woman in Australia donates $1 for every hate tweet she receives

Susan Carland has employed an inspiring tactic to deal with Twitter trolls

AUSTRALIA: Susan Carland, an Australian academic and wife of talk-show host Waleed Aly, is a Muslim woman who has pledged to donate one Australian dollar to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) for every hateful message she receives on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/SusanCarland/status/656980086172725248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



Carland explained to the Sydney Morning Herald that she "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."

She claims receiving threats that entail "requests to leave Australia, hope for my death, insults about my appearance (with a special focus on my hijab), accusations that I am a stealth jihadist, and that I am planning to take over the nation, one halal meat pie at a time."



At first, she "tried blocking, muting, engaging and ignoring" the hate tweets, but later adopted the idea of donating a dollar to Unicef for every hate tweet.

"I felt I should be actively generating good in the world for every ugly verbal bullet sent my way," Carland said.

Many users shared their support for Carland on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/mikebeder/status/664667363011203072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/pm12_88/status/664657170957336576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

@SusanCarland Hi Susan, I just heard about what you are doing regarding internet trolls & hate tweets. More power to you, lady!! xx 🙂

— Kate Doak (@katedoak) November 12, 2015

Carland started her pledge in October and has already donated more than AUD1,000 to Unicef. It is not yet known whether this move has stopped users from posting hate comments on her twitter account, but it certainly stands as a great example of how to positively deal with negativity.

This article originally appeared on Mashable.