Critics' pick! Eye-opening, brave, brutally honest - New York Magazine
Revealing and moving-a gifted filmmaker! - Wall Street Journal
Lifts the veil of secrecy - National Public Radio
Courageous...invaluable! - Boston Globe
Fascinating, provocative! - San Francisco Chronicle
Provocative, deeply felt and emotionally complex - Village Voice
Heartfelt... Nail-biting! - The New York Times
A powerful, important documentary - Film Journal International
Illuminating! Joins two other very fine documentaries about faith and homosexuality: For the Bible Tells Me So and Trembling Before G-d. - Denver Post

WINNER! GLAAD MEDIA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY!

 
 
 
 

 

A jihad for Love DVD

"A JIHAD FOR LOVE NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD WORLDWIDE"
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49 NATIONS, 4 MILLION PLUS VIEWERS AND GROWING!

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

Produced by Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G-d) and Sharma, A Jihad for Love was filmed in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, it reclaims the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘an inner struggle’ or ‘to strive in the path of God’ - allowing its remarkable subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war.

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Parvez Sharma is blogging at http://www.ajihadforlove.blogspot.com

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