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(IsraelNN.com) Filmmaker Sandi DuBowski, who released the highly controversial documentary on Jewish gays and lesbians "Trembling Before G-d" in 2001 has released a new film, "A Jihad for Love" which has already opened in Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco among other US cities.

In a "Jihad for Love", directed and co-produced by gay Muslim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, viewers meet a lesbian couple in Istanbul; a group of gay Iranians who escaped persecution in their home country and ultimately make it to Toronto via Turkey; a gay Egyptian who was jailed and beaten before escaping to Paris, and a South African imam who is openly gay.

Sharma said he made the film in response to negative imagery surrounding Muslims following the attack by Muslim jihadists on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.