Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk
Oddly Enough Article | Reuters.co.uk: "LONDON (Reuters) - The factors that drove a group of religious zealots to try blowing up parliament 400 years ago are as relevant today as they were then, police said on Thursday.
The Gunpowder Plotters, the most famous of whom was Guy Fawkes, were Catholic fanatics in an age when Catholicism was a persecuted minority faith in England.
'They were a minority who felt they had no say and when that happens people feel their options are limited and some turn to violence,' said police Commander Steve Allen.
'There are communities today who feel the same way, and our job is to try to build an inclusive society so that minorities do feel they have a voice,' he told Reuters at the opening of a special exhibition on the plot.
Neither Allen nor the exhibition at London's Globe Theatre mentioned the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington -- although there is a reference to England's 5/11, meaning November 5, the date in 1605 set for the detonation.
'We will be bringing groups of youths through here to study what happened and what it means,' Allen said. 'This is relevant to all young people because we are going to have to forge a country where everyone has a voice.'
The exhibition, with police-style profiles of the plotters is being staged at Shakespeare's Globe theatre because he wrote Macbeth immediately afterwards with a strong signal of support for the king, according to co-curator Daniel Hahn."
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