By Maesam Khan
Boxer Amir Khan deleted the picture after followers accused him of being disrespectful to his fiancée Faryal Makhdoom and setting a bad example to fellow Muslims. The former world champion has admitted that it was ‘silly’ to post an online photo of him holding a wad of cash in front of a ‘pole dancer’ in a Las Vegas nightclub. Khan, who is a devout Muslim, put the photo on Twitter with the accompanying message reading: ‘Let’s play lol.’ He apologised by claimed that the cash he is showing in the picture was fake and the women on the pole was not a stripper but just performing ‘acrobatics’. “Ew. Woke up to something very disgusting and disturbing…” Faryal Makhdoom, 20, tweeted when Khan put the photo up.
“Hi everyone, I want to apologise for the picture I tweeted last week. I admit it was silly of me, but I wanted to make some things clear, first the I held was fake money the club put on our table and the girl on the back is not a stripper, she was doing acrobats on the pole. It is not a strip club. I wud never spend or waste money that way. I was in a club as a guest but believe I did nothing wrong. That’s why I tweeted the picture myself in the first place”.
After the apologies by Khan, Makhdoom, a New York student, started defending her husband ‘to be’. “Everyone needs to take a chill pill. I am aware of everything my man does. Thanks for the concern. However, there’s a big difference between a strip club & a normal club. I think most clubs in Vegas do have pole dancers. Even I knew that lol.” People started exploiting this post and started posting outraged comments as well. “Tut tut. What’s the world coming to. Letting ur fiance dance with other girls and shoving money down their knickers haha”. One of the twitter user wrote in response to Miss Makhdoom’s tweet. Khan later tweeted, “Just blocked over 100 people on Twitter for talking rubbish”. Amir Iqbal Khan is the youngest British Olympic Boxing medallist, winning silver at 2004 Athens Olympics at the age of 17. He is also one of the youngest British World Champion ever, winning the WBA Light Welterweight title at age of 22.
