The last terrorist attack in Scotland was at Glasgow airport in 2007

Scotland is not an Islamist target because of its success in integrating Muslims into the community, the country’s top counterterrorism officer has claimed.

Detective Chief Superintendent Gerry McLean, who heads Police Scotland’s organised crime and counterterrorism unit, said that Muslims tended to feel more part of society in Scotland than they did elsewhere in the UK.

The last terrorist attack in Scotland was at Glasgow airport in 2007. Five members of the public were injured but nobody died. In the past year England has had a suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena, which killed 23 people including Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from Barra, and attacks at Westminster and London Bridge; these left 13 people dead and 100 injured.

Mr McLean said that he was grateful that