Board Thread:Off-topic board/@comment-108.76.119.144-20170305232403/@comment-18014300-20170306020928

There are some facts I wanted to correct you on.
First, the real-life, historical Assassins were not a tribe, but a state specifically formed from a group of Nizari Ismailis.
More importantly, modern-day Muslim extremists and terrorists have absolutely no connection with the historical Assassins or the descendants of the historical Assassins. The Assassins were Nizari Ismailis, which is a branch of Shia Islam, and like the fictional Assassins, they historically refrained from harming innocent civilians. They do still exist today, with a continued line of succession, but they are quite integrated with Western society and obviously don't practice political violence anymore. See: Aga Khan IV. The Islamic extremists of today mostly subscribe to the ideology called Wahhabism, a rather recent denomination of Islam founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab only around 1740.

And no, I don't think that the Knights Templar, or a group like it (e.g. Illuminati) still exists. It's not impossible for secret societies to be lingering around, but I'm not much of a fan for conspiracy theories because I think there's not much merit to such theorizing without evidence. The Knights Hospitaller still exist though.