"exclusively trading in stereotypes and Western orientialist imagery and tropes" To be fair, they could also be simply trading on whatever happens to be in the

"exclusively trading in stereotypes and Western orientialist imagery and tropes" To be fair, they could also be simply trading on whatever happens to be in the news. If you open a newspaper / watch the news, most of what you will see about the region can be summed up by 'crazy islamists killing people, threaten America with annihilation'.