A British Muslim MP is reported to have received threats after voting in favour of gay marriage in the recent parliamentary debate. 

According to the Mail on Sunday, police say the threats against Sadiq Khan, Labour member for the Tooting district of London, are "credible enough that he should review the security around him and his family".

Britain has eight MPs who identify as Muslim. As I noted in an earlier blog post, five of them – including Khan – voted to allow gay marriage, two did not vote and only one of them voted against.

This brought abusive comments from some sections of the Muslim community, with one imam from Bradford declaring Khan to be apostate.

Explaining his vote, Khan said he regards same-sex marriage as "fundamentally an issue of equality". He also pointed out that the parliamentary Bill "upholds freedom of religion" because "no Church, Mosque or other faith group will be obliged to hold same sex marriage ceremonies if they do not wish to".

Inayat Bunglawala of Muslims4UK, who has written on his blog in support of same-sex marriage, has also come under fire.

One of the readers' comments says:

"When you die don’t think that everything is over and done with, rather the real life only starts from that moment on, then you will think back to and lament the days when you used to write these things and your rejection of Islaam, but by then it will be too late, the fire of hell will stare you in the face and your arrogance, confidence and 'courage' will disappear like a balloon being popped, you will then be tried in one of those 'islaamic courts' that you detest so much, but on that day you will shake like a leaf, you will swim in your own sweat, and you will not be able to utter a sound, because the judge is not some random molvi, the judge will be Allaah Rabbul 'Izzah, that same Allaah that condemns the kuffaar to hell that you seem to feel is unjust, that same Allaah who forbade gay marriages that you are trying to make legal, that same Allaah who created man from dust that you reject in favour of the view of your lord Darwin and his theory of evolution."