The television series "Homeland" has come under fire several times because it is a show purported to be "racist" for stereotyping Arabs as terrorists and refugees.
In response, street artists even took a jab at the show by painting graffiti in its background saying that "Homeland" is racist and a watermelon, which means it is nonsense and fake.
However, "Homeland" star Nazanin Boniadi, who played CIA analyst Fara Sherazi said in an interview with The Standard UK that it is unfair to blame the show for being racist, since it has not painted Muslims in a bad light.
The 35-year-old Iranian-born, London-raised actress stressed it was "frankly not true" that "Homeland" is biased.
"You see good guys and bad guys. My character was a 'good' Muslim. She was shown as freedom-loving. There's been good and bad people whatever religion. The CIA was shown doing bad things," she said.
"It (Homeland) really showed the ramifications and the human cost of war. To say it takes a racist stance or, like the graffiti artists claimed, that all Muslim characters are shown as terrorists, is frankly not true," she added.
Boniadi is currently campaigning for Amnesty International, and she has strongly voiced her views in support of women's rights and denounced the political repression in Iran.
Earlier, artists Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone insisted that "Homeland" is not a series because there's so many things wrong with its political message.
"The very first season of 'Homeland' explained to the American public that Al Qaida is actually an Iranian venture. According to the storyline, they are not only closely tied to Hezbollah, but Al Qaida even sought revenge against the US on behalf of Iran," they wrote on their website. "This dangerous phantasm has become mainstream 'knowledge' in the US and has been repeated as fact by many mass media outlets. Five seasons later, the plot has come a long way, but the thinly veiled propaganda is no less blatant. Now the target is freedom of information and privacy neatly packaged as the threat posed by Whistleblowers, the Islamic State and the rest of Shia Islam."
They further slammed the series for being "the most bigoted show on television" because of its "inaccurate, undifferentiated and highly biased depiction of Arabs, Pakistanis, and Afghans."
Not to mention, they said that the show has painted in a bad light many Muslim-dominated cities such as Beirut and Islamabad.
