A search through a friends account revealed that some other 'Parvez Sharma' had set up an account. Another friend thinks it could be because of some of the groups I had joined-one which supports the Palestinian cause. Someone else says it might be because I was sending emails to my friends lists promoting the film. Yet another theory is that I was adding and accepting too many 'friends'. I have requested the films publicists to take up the matter with FaceBook and we are trying many channels to get through their opacity. So if you are trying to reach me there, as of now I do not exist there. If I am re-instated with the mercy of those tireless facebook employees, nameless and churning out all that html code ; )-then I will let you all know!
I mourn the loss of more than a 1000 friends, many of whom had seen or wanted to see this film. But I also wonder if this is a unique kind of a freedom from a strange online parallel universe.
Most of all I mourn the loss of a young gay Muslim man who was communicating his immense personal struggle with his family to me via FaceBook. You all have read some of his communications.
This is the LOVEJIHADI blog and I am currently reporting from the cyber-frontlines in the many contested Muslim worlds. Follow me on twitter @parvezsharma or join me on Facebook at Parvez Hussein Sharma and try to watch A JIHAD FOR LOVE Ground-breaking new FILM and BOOK coming soon, and when that happens I will blog more often.
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What they are saying (a very incomplete list-a google search is a better way to find all of it)
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- Die Zeit (Latest from Berlin)
- Variety (Latest from Berlin)
- Newsweek (Latest from Berlin)
- NPR Talk of the Nation
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- Daily News Egypt
- The Hollywood Reporter
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- International Herald Tribune
- The Gazette (Montreal)
- The Globe and Mail
- BBC Radio Five Live
- The Independent
- Reuters
- Gay.Com
- Al-Arabiya on You Tube
- BBC World News
- Al-Arabiya
- Planet Out
- Indiewire
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This JIHAD IS ON FIRE
September 2007 is when I started (with a finished film, my first) and now some 49 countries and 8 million people later, the whole world is talking. The movement around this work has begun worldwide. We will be screening next year around the world and yes in Muslim countries as well.
For more updates email me at parvezsharmaATgmailDOTcom and post your comments here as well.
For more updates email me at parvezsharmaATgmailDOTcom and post your comments here as well.
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- SOLD OUT!!!
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