An HBO television drama created by an Oscar-winning director and a Canadian-Somali rapper has infuriated many in Minnesota’s Somali community who say the show will perpetuate unfair stereotypes of Muslims.

Touted as a window into the lives of Somalis in Minneapolis adjusting to life in the Midwestern city, many community members instead fear “Mogadishu, Minnesota” will stoke Islamophobia if it airs. Filming on the pilot episode was scheduled to end last week.

At a time when opposition to immigrants and anti-Muslim sentiment have featured heavily in rhetoric by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Minnesota’s Somali community members, especially men, are worried the possible TV drama will brand them as potential terrorists.

“I’m completely against it,” Mahmoud Mire, 20, a first-generation Somali-American, said of the show. “As Muslims, Blacks and as refugees, people have their misconceptions about us already.”

Those feelings have been echoed by others in protests against the show. Somali residents in one Minneapolis housing complex voted earlier this month to block crews from filming in their building.

Even the involvement of Somalia’s best-known celebrity, Canadian Somali rapper K’naan Warsame, as writer, director and executive director has not quelled mistrust. He is working with executive producer Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Oscar as best director in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker.”

HBO officials declined to discuss the issues around the pilot other than to confirm the cast and provide a short synopsis, describing it as “a family drama that grapples with what it means to be American – among the Somalis of Minneapolis.”

The filming of a pilot does not ensure it will air or be made into a full series.

Somalis began to arrive in Minnesota’s Twin Cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s, fleeing a civil war in their Horn of Africa nation. There are around 39,000 living in the state of 5.5 million people, according to  census data from 2014. That is up from around 32,000 in 2010.

“Anything that happens with Somalis, our community is thrown under the bus,” said Mubashir Jeilani, 21, a Somali-American from Minneapolis. He is executive director of the West Bank Community Coalition (WBCC) in the city’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, the hub for the area’s Somali community.