

The same broad brush, he says, applies to video games too. "The current political and cultural climate is the reason in media we are the bad guys right now," said Rami Ismail, a co-founder of Vlambeer, an independent game studio based in the Netherlands.

You need only watch a few episodes of 24 or Homeland to see that Muslims, particularly those of Arab descent, are almost always painted as the enemy. The media has been pigeonholing Muslims for years.

And it's not just recent world events that have led to an undue level of scrutiny and prejudice.
