Bashir Ahmad, Scotland’s first Muslim MSP, has welcomed the jury’s guilty verdict in the case of Bilal Abdallah – one of the Glasgow Airport attackers.

Commenting on the verdict Mr Ahmad who represents Glasgow said: "I welcome today’s guilty verdict. As a doctor Bilal Abdallah should have valued the sanctity of human life. Instead, when crashing his jeep into Glasgow Airport he showed no regard for who was killed or maimed. It is only by chance that we were fortunate not to suffer any fatalities during this disgraceful attack.

"Mr Abdallah often cited his anger at foreign policy as reasoning for his attack. This can be no justification as we have democratic channels to deal with grievances in the proper way.

"Besides a couple of minor incidents, which were well handled by the authorities, there was no backlash against the Muslim community after the Glasgow Airport attacks.

"I believe the Scottish people will show the same resilience and unity in the wake of this verdict and understand that Scottish-Muslims wholeheartedly condemn terrorism regardless of who commits it.

"Our message to the terrorists is simple and will always be 'Not in Our Name'."