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In the aftermath of the attacks in Manchester and London, there has been much debate about what role Islam has played in the radicalisation of the men who carried out the atrocities.

Karen Armstrong is considered to be one of the world's leading writers on religion and has won the Princess Asturias Award for Social Sciences. She told Martha Kearney "we have to re-asses things, not just jump for an easy scapegoat like Islam".

She said: "What we're seeing is a ghastly, perverted form of Islam. Just as you see a perverted form of Christianity in the Ku Klux Klan."

(Photo: A message left with flowers at site of attacks. Credit: Getty Images)