re: One of first muslim same-sex marriages takes place in UK

I'd say that this couple is likely to be in more danger than an arbitrary heterosexual couple, yes. Of course.

I won't go so far to say that their lives are in immediate peril, or that they're destined to get their commupence in the near future, or even that we need be concerned with their safety. I don't know what lives they live, I don't know how sheltered their existence, and I don't know how removed from fundamental Islam they are. All of these things are necessary to know before we can make any sort of actual evaluation into how risky this decision was. But it's all information we don't have.

Do you know who does have that information? The two men who made the decision themselves. They know way more about their lives, way more about the risk they are taking than you ever could. And yet they decided to take that risk because they obviously felt it was worth it. They felt that the benefits simply outweighed the risks.

These two are willing to bear the risk of being publically outed gay Muslim men. So why do you feel the need to belittle that? Why do you feel the need to to hype up only the dangers and the threats from their decision? I'm of the opinion that it says more about you than anyone else