The Heat: London terror attack and the heightened threat in Europe

Just days after a suicide bombing rocked the city of Manchester, the United Kingdom is reeling from a terrorist attack in London. This is the third attack in the UK this year. CGTN talked to a panel of experts on global terrorist attacks.

After one of the panelists made the claim that Muslims are “inherently violent”, Mohammed Shafiq, the chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a leading British Muslim organization made the following response:

“There is a struggle here, and the struggle is to take on the terrorists, that’s what we’ve got to focus on. And the Muslim world, the Christian world, the Jewish world, people of no faith, we all need to come together and defeat that ideology."

"You’re right, it is something which concerns many people, but I think the idea somehow that inherently Muslim countries and Muslim societies have been terribly violent, it’s plainly not true, you know you could argue over centuries, and the Christians and Europe spent generations killing one another, let’s not focus on that, let’s focus on how we can stop this threat, and stop this threat from terrorism now,” he added.

(CGTN)