Amir Khan receives death threats over putting up Christmas tree at home

British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan is making news again, and this time it is for an Instagram post he put up recently. The 31-year-old recently posted a picture of a Christmas tree online and since then he has received hate comments and death threats from a number of his Muslim followers.

Khan had put up a picture of a Christmas tree for his three-year-old daughter Lamaisah. He posted, “While everyone’s asleep, daddy put the Christmas tree up. Lamaisah’s going to be happy.”

However, it wasn’t long before people started flooding that post with hate comments. One troll wrote, ‘You must be dead and your family will be death. I promise and Allah must promise. I and Allah see you and check you. your angel of death came to see you,” reported Daily Mail.

Another user wrote, “That is a pagan practice. I mean you might as well eat pork…”

“True Muslim believers wouldn’t be putting a Christmas tree in their house hence he doesn’t represent a TRUE MUSLIM,” wrote a user.

However, there were others who came to his defense.

An Instagram user wrote, “He hasn’t put the tree up to be offensive, his done it for his little girl, she is being brought up in a western country, and will see all her friends and places around her with them. Have you seen how many tress there are up all over Dubai and other Muslim countries? Saying he should die is way over the top!”

Khan has been quite open about his beliefs and says that he is proud to be a practicing Muslims. He once mentioned during an interview that mosque is his ‘favorite place to go’. It has also been reported that Khan is served separate halal meals at I’m a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here.

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