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“A Jihad for Admire”
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Homosexuality in the Muslim World
Amos Lassen
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Most of us are aware that it is illegal to be happy in the Muslim world. Homosexuality is very great underground and because of that we know very minute about it. Indian director Parvez Sharma has made a documentary that exposes what is going on in the Muslim countries with regard to the glad snarl. Sharma, himself, is both a devout Muslim and a homosexual and therefore his film is deeply personal. His anecdote is a heartbreaker and as he tells us how he had been ostracized as a cheerful man, he further shows that as a Muslim living in America, he became treated unfairly as a Muslim after 9/11.
The film challenges not only intolerance toward tickled people in the Muslim world but intolerance toward Muslims in the Western world. Sharma spent six years working on the movie and filmed in twelve countries and in nine languages and managed to collect over four hundred hours of film. What Sharma found is incredible. He found a thriving, secretive blissful community in Saudi Arabia and changing attitudes toward homosexuality in both Turkey and India. He also found that, in Egypt, it is possible to be satisfied, if one lives within the regulations of being secretive and underground. Homosexuality is tolerated in the Muslim world as long as people are not begin as long as politics and social identity are not fraction of the person’s life.
I can imagine what a hard job it was to come by the trust of the people who are interviewed in the film and appear with concealed identities, blurred faces, or in silhouette. The fact that he is Muslim unquestionably helped.
The film is one of both dignity and despairs and is a compassionate sight at devout Muslims who struggle to reconcile their religion with their sexual preference. It is intelligent to effect that only one single short passage in the Koran says that homosexuality is a crime punishable by death but even that is questionable by scholars who say that the prohibition may actually deal with rape and not with relations between consenting adults. Even with this some 4,000 people have been build to death in Iran for alleged homosexual acts since 1979.
Sharma feels that his religion has been depicted as a faith of violence when in do it is not but it seems from what we discover in this film that the violence against elated people illustrates what Sharma calls the “high jacking” of his religion.
The movie does not offer solutions. It gives us a portray of what is and does not demonstrate mighty hope for change. It could be the film that brings about change as happened with Sandi Dubowski’s “Trembling Before G-d” survey of joyful and lesbian homosexual Jews. There was a cramped change in thought and that is better than none at all.
Director Parvez Sharma spent more than five years traveling throughout the Muslim world and interviewing lesbians and jubilant men about their life, their faith and their fears as followers of Islam. The results are enlightening, heart rendering and, at times, gross. Like the documentary about satisfied people in the Orthodox Jewish world, Trembling Before G-D, A Jihad For Adore restricts itself to the paradox of religious followers of a faith that seemingly rejects their existence. Of course, the penalty for homosexuality is far more severe in countries ruled by Sharia law, but it is astounding to peek and learn how the faithful deal with what must seem like overwhelming obstacles in simple things that glad people in the Western world hold for granted.
I learned quite a bit from this film that I was previously unaware of, such as the fact that Turkey, although overwhelmingly Muslim, has no laws forbidding homosexuality, and attitudes there concerning homosexuality have always been more relaxed than other parts of the Muslim world. I also was under the groundless impression, as many Westerners are, that jihad means “Holy war”. It actually means “struggle”. Thus the film’s title is quite reliable, and because the film’s creator / director is himself a member of the Muslim faith, the film exudes an aura of self-assured confidence, familiarity and respect for its subject matter that many documentaries cannot hope to accomplish. In current Pakistan, of all places, the Sufi sect celebrates the admire of a 16th century poet and Sufi saint, Shah Hussain, for a Brahmin boy named Madho Lal. Each year on his urs (death anniversary) their admire is illustrious through ritual dances held in the shrine approach the tomb of the two lovers. The scenes of Muslims dancing and celebrating this savor are jarring, and totally at odds with what many in the West have advance to ask from the Muslim world.
One of the most striking things about this documentary is how Mr. Sharma managed to accumulate the men and women interviewed in the film to openly talk about themselves, although most of their faces are not shown. Even though a cheerful Muslim himself, it must have been very difficult to find their trust. More striking aloof is the devotion to their religion that these people level-headed have, and one disagreement with Western culture is how finish they composed are to their parents, and how accepting their fundamentalist parents seem to be, despite the cultural and religious taboos against same-sex adore. That is to say, many of the ecstatic people profiled in the film are composed stop to their families, whereas in Fundamentalist Christian families, many contented children are rejected by their parents completely. There is even a fantastic segment where a Turkish lesbian brings her partner to meet her mother.
There is also a scene where a South African Muslim confronts an Imam, and tells him that the verse in the Qur’an which condemns homosexuality (there is only one, outside of the record of Sodom & Gomorrah) is inaugurate to interpretation. The Imam responds that the only allotment of Muslim law about homosexuality that is inaugurate to interpretation is the severity of the punishment to be inflicted. Such complete close-mindedness will not surprise anyone who has ever tried to argue contented rights with a Christian fundamentalist. It has long been my conception that one of the most severe problems with homosexuality and Islam is that the Muslim religion has no central leadership, in that almost anyone who is a member of Islam can leer to be an Imam and so become a spiritual leader and recognized as an authority on the Muslim religion and what it teaches. As such, many of the leaders of the Islam faith are those who are most fundamental in their interpretation, although the term Imam itself differs completely depending on whether one is a Sunni or a Shiite, the two largest sects in Islam. This documentary is extremely eye-opening, shedding light on what heretofore has only been a sad world of isolation and self-hate. It is definite to engender discussion among Westerners, and may even result in some dialogue within the Muslim world. And at least that’s a open. Highly recommended.
