An Ipswich woman alleged to have subjected a prominent Australian Muslim woman to a barrage of religious hate online has made her first appearance in court.
Jay-Leighsa Bauman, 22, appeared in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning, charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
The charges stem from an alleged online hate campaign she directed at human rights activist Mariam Veiszadeh in early January.
The allegedly expletive laden, anti-Islam campaign by Ms Bauman was unleashed on Ms Veiszadeh's personal Facebook page, where police will allege she referred to the human rights activist as a whore, a prostitute and a rag-head and urged her to return to her "sand dune country".
Ms Bauman appeared briefly in court on Wednesday, where her case was adjourned until next Tuesday.
It is unknown if she intends to plead guilty or not guilty to the charge.
She made no comment to media as she left court.
The demurely dressed 22-year-old's meek court appearance came in stark contrast to her public Facebook profile, where she appears to remain defiant about her alleged attack on Ms Veiszadeh.
In a post responding to friends urging her to make her page private or to delete her account, Ms Bauman said she had no intention of doing so.
"I may just go ahead and make EVERYTHING public because I'm not fukn scared of a bit of judgement," she wrote.
"And I won't stay silent so YOU can stay comfortable ;)"
Ms Veiszadeh alleges the Ipswich woman was one of a number of people who abused her online earlier this year, after the Australian Defence League targeted her in a post to its 5000 Facebook followers.
Late last year, Ms Veiszadeh, a lawyer, publicly rallied against a Cairns Woolworths store selling a singlet adorned with the Australian flag and the words, "love it or leave", which she perceived to be bigoted and which the ADL subsequently seized upon.
A torrent of online abuse followed, she said, and dramatically escalated after she spoke to Fairfax Media in February, when the charge was laid against Ms Bauman.
However, when she went public with the new threats via her Twitter account, including death threats, an enormous groundswell of support ensued.
Ms Veiszadeh urged her followers to retweet and report the threats using the hashtag created by a friend #IStandWithMariam.
The enormous number of retweets quickly saw the hashtag go viral, reaching the top 10 trending Twitter topics in Australia and saw several accounts shut down.
Ms Bauman is scheduled to return to the same court on March 17.