What is answer to terror

Struan Stevenson: Reprisals are not the answer to terror

Media gather outside Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, after a van was driven into pedestrians near the north London mosque, leaving one man dead and eight injured. Picture: John Stillwell/PA Wire

STRUAN STEVENSON

We must not resort to reprisals following terror attacks, writes Struan Stevenson
The Finsbury Park mosque attack in London is the latest horrific outrage to stun public opinion.
So many innocent lives have been taken in recent terrorist attacks that many people in the UK are now clamoring for an appropriate response.
The tit-for-tat nature of these events plays perfectly into the hands of the terrorists, whose aim is to set one section of society against another.
We must not allow this to happen. It is too easy to get caught up in debates about the proportional value of solutions that involve an increased security presence and those that call for deeper engagement with, for example,