As Variety reports, gay Indian Muslim filmmaker Parvez Sharma is directing a documentary called "In the Name of Allah" about gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds. He's working with Sandi Dubowski, whose documentary "Trembling Before G-d" movingly looked at gay orthodox Jews as they told their stories.
Good luck to Sharma and Dubowski. But as the Wall Street
Journal's James Taranto warns:
One wonders how this will go over in the Muslim world, which has not of late gained a reputation for tolerance. And if Muslims react to "In the Name of Allah" with half the fury they've directed at those Danish cartoons, which side will our Western multiculturalists come down on?
I guess we'll see.
Given Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's brutal
murder by an Islamic militant upset over Van Gogh's making a
movie about the mistreatment of women in Islamic societies, Sharma
and Dubowski are brave men.