Amsterdam - Muslim critic Ehsan Jami is working on a movie about homosexuality in Islam. On Monday his spokeswoman confirmed the rumours in an article about Jami published in daily newspaper NRC.next. She added 22-year-old Jami is currently working on the script. He wants to start filming next year. Several directors are reported to contribute to the film.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has formally protested Jami's yet to be produced film.
Jami's audiovisual project is the second movie about homosexuality and Islam in the making in the Netherlands.
Two years ago, former legislator Ayaan Hirsi Ali of the Liberal Party also announced she was preparing a film on this subject, Submission 2.
Her movie would be the second part of the production she made with the late Dutch director Theo van Gogh.
Van Gogh was assassinated by Muslim fundamentalist Mohammed Bouyeri in November 2004, only a few months after Submission had been released.
In the interview with NRC.next Jami is also quoted saying, "Radical Muslims who threaten others, who spoil the situation for gays, women and the unfaithful, need to be deported from the Netherlands right away."
On Tuesday September 11, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, Jami and a number of committees of former Muslims from several European countries are due to sign a Declaration of Tolerance in The Hague.
Jami recently founded the Dutch committee of former Muslims as a means to overcome what he called "persistent taboos" in Muslim society about leaving the faith.
He is also a member of the city council for the Labour Party in Leidschendam-Voorburg near The Hague.
Jami lives in a so-called safe house in a secret location. He was placed under heavy personal security after being attacked for the third time on August 4.
