Muslim youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has reacted to an “inflammatory” opinion poll about whether or not she should leave the country, rejecting it as “inviting discrimination”.

The 26-year-old media commentator and engineer announced her upcoming “rite of passage” move to London on social media this week.

In a recent Facebook post, 7 News Australia questioned its followers as to whether Ms Abdel-Magied should stay in Australia to “face her critics”.

Thousands of Australians lodged their vote before Seven Network removed the post.

In addition to widespread public criticism, Ms Abdel-Magied herself condemned the poll.

“This is more a reflection of Channel 7’s poor editorial decision-making than anything else,” Ms Abdel-Magied told The New Daily.

“The outlet’s profiling of me in this way was conceived and inflammatory, inviting prejudice and discrimination.

“It was a bad call, and really, pretty ridiculous.”

Seven Network has since removed the opinion poll. Source: Facebook

Monash University communications and cultural economy professor Justin O’Connor described the Seven News poll as “organised political bullying, with a nice twist of racism”.

A Seven Network spokeswoman told The New Daily it “should never have been posted” and was reviewing how that occurred.

In a statement to The New Daily, Yahoo7 admitted the post was “an error of judgment”.

“The poll … was posted to genuinely create discussion around a balanced article and it was never the intention to generate inappropriate commentary on social media,” it read.

“We accept this was an error of judgement, the post has been removed and we unreservedly apologise to anyone offended.”

Ms Abdel-Magied’s views on sharia law were slammed after a high-profile appearance on ABC’s Q&A earlier this year which was followed by a campaign aimed at terminating her employment with the national broadcaster.

The bid, in the form of an online petition, attracted 23,000 signatures.

On Anzac Day this year Ms Abdel-Magied sparked further outrage when she asked Australians to also remember those on Manus Island, Nauru, Syria and Palestine.

She also featured in a cartoon by the late Bill Leak which depicted her posing for a selfie on a taxpayer-funded trip beside a woman being stoned.

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Media studies author and academic Dr Andy Ruddock told The New Daily that while it was important to recognise the poll as “sexist, racist and bullying”, what was more significant was the underlying ideology.

“It seems that female public figures are subjected to a level of public humiliation and threats that men aren’t … it’s really concerning,” he said.

“One of the earliest criticisms of media is the temptation to contrive conflict for the sake of entertainment.

“Rather than reporting this anger, we should be having discussions about the deeper issues like multiculturalism, the openness of political discourse, and gender issues and violence.”

Mr Ruddock said the “rubbish poll” did not help readers learn anything but instead contributed to fuelling anger due to its “double barrelled” nature.

“It’s professionally bad practice. It [the poll] assumes everybody hates her,” he said.

“A poll should offer some kind of public benefit.”