OHMYGOSSIP — Saira Khan has received death threats since revealing she’s no longer a practising Muslim.
The 50-year-old TV personality recently announced her decision, admitting she’s been feeling “guilty, caged and unhappy” for years – but the move has resulted in her receiving a number of death threats.
Speaking on Instagram Live, Saira explained: “I have had death threats … until you come from that background or ethnicity as a woman, you will never understand the barriers the obstacles – the deaths [threats] to your life, we are about 100 years behind in terms of freedom of speech freedom or individualism, liberty and choice.
“You cannot believe the messages I have received. I am not going to come out and say I practise the religions because I don’t.”
Saira explained her decision in a recent newspaper column.
She shared: “Saying I’m Muslim and then having a boyfriend, wearing clothes that go against the Muslim dress code, having a drink and living a non-Muslim life only brings guilt, self-loathing, loneliness and a feeling of being caged.”
Saira doesn’t wish to “unintentionally hurt others” with her decision.
However, the TV star has finally found the “courage” to go public.
She said: “I’m doing it now for my own wellbeing. I want to be honest and feel free to live my life by my own rules. I have found a huge relief in being honest.
“I know that one of the reasons I have been so angry and unhappy in my life is because of the many contradictions I’ve had to live with.
“I’ve not dared to share these feelings before because the very few Muslim women who have are called sinful and some have even been targeted with death threats.”
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