A Bangladeshi-born Muslim community leader has accused Islamic youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied of being in denial about how Islam is linked to the abuse of women.

Tanveer Ahmed - a psychiatrist, Sydney councillor and former multicultural adviser - criticised the founder of Youth Without Borders for telling the ABC's Q&A program Islam was 'the most feminist religion'.

Dr Ahmed, who also had a comic role with the Seven Network's No Bingo game show, said the 25-year-old activist was an example of a Muslim who enjoyed the freedoms and privileges of the West but convinced themselves those luxuries were also 'Islamic'.

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Tanveer Ahmed, a pracisting Muslim, has slammed Yassmin Abdel-Magied for being in denial about abuses of women done in the name of Islam

Dr Ahmed, a psychiatrist, said Yassmin Abdel-Magied (pictured) had confused the freedoms of the West with Islam

'Like Yassmin, they can brush off the human rights abuses against women and minorities across the Muslim world as cultural stains not consistent with their own enlightened understanding of Islam,' the father of two daughters wrote in an opinion piece for Spectator magazine.

'It is embarrassing that her views appear to be either denial of, or appeasement of, the most uncomfortable aspects of Islam.

'This helps shield them from the foundations of the Enlightenment as the true source of their standard of living and allows them to maintain anti-Western stances couched in grievance.'

After that appearance on Q&A, Ms Abdel-Magied argued a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia was cultural and not related to Islam.'

But she failed to address the issues of female genital mutilation, the forced marriage of girls or how a woman's word was worth less than that of a man in a sharia court.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied told Q&A sharia to her meant praying five times a day before contacting for advice Hizb ut-Tahrir, which wants a pan-Islamic state with sharia law

Dr Ahmed, who previously served on the board of the Australian Multicultural Council, said engaging Muslims by their faith would make them more likely to demand special Islamic laws.

'A key danger to our societies is when Muslims begin thinking of themselves as Muslims, first and foremost,' he said.

'In doing so, they can argue they are acting according to Islamic teachings, which urge Muslims to give precedence to the ummah, or the global Islamic community.

'They are also very much in keeping with trends in identity politics which allow them to seek privileges in the public space.'

Yassmin Abdel-Magied contacted Hizb ut-Tahrir after her polarising Q&A appearance

Earlier this month on Q&A Abdel-Magied, who was born in Sudan and grew up in Brisbane, asserted that sharia to her was praying five times a day, after Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie demanded sharia law supporters be deported.

Three days after that fiery exchange, she sought advice on Facebook from Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi, a frontman for the Islamist political group which is campaigning for a pan-Islamic state based on sharia law.

'Salams! Well, I am always happy to take feedback. What specifically was problematic and how can I do better in the future inshallah?,' Ms Abdel-Magied posted on Mr Doureihi's Facebook after he called her arguments 'indeed problematic.'

Mr Doureihi responded: 'First of all, may Allah reward you for your tireless efforts. Not an easy task, but you consistently do so with grace, humility and courage.

'In a nutshell, you've ended up framing Islam through a secular lens, aimed at a secular people and conscious of the presence of a secular government. The end result was always going to be ugly.'

More than 28,800 signatures are on a petition calling for Yassmin Abdel-Magied to be sacked from the ABC

This is the same man who refused to condemn Islamic State terrorist atrocities in an October 2014 interview on the ABC's Lateline, despite being asked to do so 11 times by presenter Emma Alberici.

Dr Ahmed sits on the City of Canada Bay Council in Sydney's inner west, and in 2011 was appointed to the Australian Multicultural Council by the Gillard Labor government.

He ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for the old Marrickville Council in 2008.

His criticism for Abdel-Magied comes as a change.org petition demanding she be sacked from her role hosting ABC News 24's Australia Wide program reached 28,812 signatures.

Last week, a former leader Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK said Australia was making the same mistake as every other English-speaking country when it came to tackling Islamism, where political lobbyists push for Islamic laws in the West.

Former Hizb ut-Tahrir leader Maajid Nawaz says the Left is fearful of criticising Islamism

Maajid Nawaz posted this image on Facebook last week of Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Maajid Nawaz, a secular Muslim opposed to sharia law, posted a warning on social media with an image of Abdel-Magied after it was revealed she had contacted Hizb ut-Tahrir for advice.

'US, Canada and now Australia, in every English-speaking country the regressive left is repeating the (now corrected) mistake that Amnesty UK made in partnering with pro-jihadist group Cage,' he said on Facebook last week.

Mr Nawaz was previously a leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK, from the age of 19, and set up the group in Pakistan.

He also served as a political prisoner in Egypt in 2001 where the group was banned.

Maajid Nawaz posted this image of Senator Jacqui Lambie arguing with Yassmin Abdel-Magied

'I know this Islamist group, they are pro-caliphate, theocratic, Muslim supremacists,' he said.

The 39-year-old Briton of Pakistani heritage ran as a centre-left Liberal Democrat candidate in the UK elections of 2015 and now runs the Quilliam Foundation in London to counter Islamism.

He coined the term 'regressive left' to describe the political Left's reluctance to criticise Islamists for fear of being branded a racist or bigot.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, which operates in 50 countries including Australia, is campaigning for a pan-Islamic superstate that implements sharia and has a constitution which calls for the killing of ex-Muslims, known as apostates.

In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Therea May last year ordered a review into the 'harm' caused by sharia courts operating in Britain, when she was home secretary.