Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and
gay Muslims.

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.