In the past, Hollywood producers used to depict terrorists and those who are supposed to be a hazardous threat for the West, as Iranians, Saudi Arabians, Syrians, Malaysians, etc. but from 9/11 on, Hollywood, mostly, tended to select its main characters or protagonists/ antagonists from Muslims American or those westerners who have converted, like Brody in Homeland. According to them, an American who has been brainwashed by Islamic theories may be as threatening as a foreigner Muslim for the United States.