Fatima Bhutto Is Taking Positive Step to Making TV shows And Films Apologize For Depicting Muslims In Negative Roles

Last week, ABC"s hit crime drama Quantico was heavily criticised after it featured Indian nationalists framing Pakistanis in a terrorist plot. The episode received a lot of social media backlash and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra-who played in the show also garnered a lot of hate for being part of the project. While the network and Chopra extended their apology, Fatima Bhutto is now hoping for other TV shows and networks to apologise for showing Muslims in bad light as well. Theauthor took to Twitter and wrote," we will be here waiting an apology from Homeland, 24, Tyrant, Rambo, Zeri Dark Thirty, American Sniper Munich etc." She left ellipses at the end of her tweet signifying that there are countless other Hollywood films and TV series that have wrongly portrayed Muslims. Bhutto stressed that it isabout time that masterminds behind these projects come forward and admit to their wrongdoings. She added that people might have to wait" a few more yeaers" for it to happen. Bhutto later tweeted that the earlier she held a talk on Hollywood and propaganda, specify how Muslims are treated in films. In her discussion, Fatima said, " in Homeland, all the good people are white and all the bad are not. And when the Homeland wants to portray a white person as bad, all they have got to do is to have him convert to Islam". She said that cinema was a powerful tool, but it was not innocent. "cinema smoothes the ground for us to accept a lot of unacceptable things, it has the power to also smooth down our resistance to things like fortune, like war and many other atrocities. It isnot innocent, it is normless, a lot of things that it really should not" The 36-year-old author was born in Kabul and isthe niece of late former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. She has wriiten several books such as Songs of Blood and Sword, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon and Whispers in the Desert. Fatima Bhooto's next book The Runaways will hit theshelves in October this year.