Episode 8 - Agenda

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I think that the people who would criticise the show (ie very religious christians,) wouldn't have been watching anyway after the one involving abortion in series 1! But I think that people did not overreact as much as they did about the season 2 episode because there is a lot of portrayal in the media by islamophobes about how Muslims are all going to blow up planes and kill us all, when actually it is a huge misrepresentation of the Muslim community. After all, it is only the minority who do commit terrorist acts within that community, and they are considered by many Muslims not to be proper Muslims as part of their teaching is peace, not war. I think that some people saw the summary in the Radio Times or something, and did not actually watch the episode, just wrote in to voice their views. If they had seen it, I'm sure there would have been far fewer complaints.

However, with the Christian one I don't feel that it is an issue that people feel that strongly about - how often are there modern-day Christian crusaders committing terrorist acts in television shows or in films? Compared to the number of ones about Muslims, it's not that many.