Episode 8 - Agenda

[JHyde]

This is good argument to have. I remember my sister and I explaining the plot of 1.1 to my father to make a point and he was a little outraged. Ironically, he's probably love the show.

The answer to this is that fundamentalists or extremists of any religion or ethos (as in the case of 4.1/4.2 or 5.10) are equally capable of death and destruction. But it's also true that some groups seem to appear more often in threat reports - and I know this because I've trolled the public reports of MI-5 looking for fan fic ideas. Certainly in terms of the threats that Five deals with, at the moment they are overwhelmingly classified as Islamic fundamentalists, mostly from Pakistan.

Admittedly, these are only the public reports and there may well be politics at play here. But not to the extent where the numbers lie so significantly.

And I hate it. I often worry, especially when writing fan fic, that I should pop something at the start explaining why I write my bad guys also speaking Arabic. But in terms of UK threats.....it's usually accurate. For Five in the 21st century, it's the truth. Twenty years ago, it was different.