A Jihad for Love | movie | 2007 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds. | dG1fT3c0R253MmM2S2s

Transcript

00:00 Homosexuality is a crime and is punishable in Islam by death.

00:29 I guess what was never taught to us when we were growing up is that Allah is also the

00:35 Allah of love.

00:36 We always had to fear God.

00:39 We never were taught about the love of God.

00:41 Do you commit and bring that obscene and lewd action where a male fulfills his desire with

00:47 a male?

00:48 I wish there was a verse in the Quran that said, "Please do not discriminate against

00:53 homosexuality."

00:54 The only difference among the jurists is how that person should be killed.

00:59 That's the only difference.

01:00 It's a dilemma.

01:01 They don't know how to deal with it.

01:10 You can be gay or lesbian and still be a good Muslim.

01:15 Jihad is not a holy war.

01:18 It's a struggle.

01:19 And the love of jihad is a struggle with Islam.

01:40 From gay and Muslim filmmaker Parveen Sharma, an astonishing debut about an Islam you have

01:45 never seen and a jihad that will surprise you.

02:06 [applause]

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