Manchester United

A look at questions on diversity and incitement to violence in the UK raised in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing.

In May this year, a suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, targeted an Ariana Grande pop concert in the UK's Manchester Arena, killing himself and 22 members of the public and injuring scores of others - many of them teenagers or children (the youngest victim was an eight-year-old girl). It was the worst attack on civilians in Britain since the July 2005 London tube bombings and ISIL subsequently claimed responsibility, hailing the perpetrator as a "soldier of the caliphate".

Abedi was a 22-year-old British Sunni Muslim, born in Manchester to a family of Libyan refugees who had settled in the UK after fleeing the government of Muammar Gaddafi. As might be expected, his actions attracted almost universal condemnation, not least by the Muslim Council of Britain, whose secretary-general, Harun Khan, was quick to denounce the attack as both horrific and criminal. "My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families," he said. "May the perpetrators face the full weight of justice both in this life and the next."