Boxing champion Amir Khan is in hot water yet again; this time for posting a picture of his Christmas tree on his Instagram account.
The former boxer, who is a practising Muslim, posted a photo of the tree saying his three-year-old daughter would like it when she woke up.
He posted, “While everyone’s asleep, daddy put the Christmas tree up. Lamaisah’s going to be happy.”
A post shared by Amir Khan (@amirkingkhan) on Dec 18, 2017 at 7:17pm PST
Amir’s wife, Faryal, also shared a picture of the tree on her Snapchat and expressed her excitement.
However, things took a terrible turn and several of his followers began to post abusive and threatening comments.
One person 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.
“Wow. I’m sorry if you’re a Muslim. You do not celebrate pagan festivals. Seriously @amirkingkhan what are you thinking? Surely, you know this is not acceptable,” wrote another.
However, some came up to his defence as well.
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 trees there are up all over Dubai and other Muslim countries? Saying he should die is way over the top!”
“Damn. Amir puts up a Christmas tree for his daughter, we go mad. Yet we go hanging around with some questionable people within our own community, don’t even deny the drug dealers who are pervasive in our community which people look the other way to. yet a Christmas tree was put up and the morality police are out in force. Hypocritical fools. If you have an opinion fine if you want to pass on a message, fine. Just don’t be a tool. Rant over,” said another one.
Amir Khan is supposed to be a practising Muslim who goes to the mosque regularly. He was reportedly allowed separate meals from other contestants on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, to make sure everything he ate was halal.