In 2005, a good friend told me about a small independent film being made for which they were looking for a 30-something South Asian woman; this actor was to play the mother in a Muslim family. Only four years after 9/11, global wounds were still fresh and having been born a Canadian member of the 95% peaceful Muslim population of the world, I was anxious about any media which would perpetuate dominant stereotypes and heighten the already rampant Islamophobia of the day.