Dick Wolf’s popular and long-running television series, FBI (2018–present), features a relatable and admirable Muslim agent played by Egyptian-American actor Zeeko Zaki. The series revolves around a counternarrative that contrasts with common negative stereotypes of Muslims that have contributed to contemporary Islamophobia. This essay traces modern-day Islamophobia to nineteenth-century Orientalism, which infantilized “Oriental” or Eastern cultures, in contrast to the more recent fear-inducing images of Muslims as terrorists, which soared in response to the events of 9/11 and to a lesser extent, after the Iran hostage crisis of 1979–1981. By cataloging a long list of negative ethnic and national stereotypes that populate the mainstream media, we see that Arabs or Muslims have not necessarily been singled out for exploitation by American entertainment venues that pander to the tastes of the crime-loving American audiences.