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The attack may have happened on another continent, but there are increasing concerns that violent extremism among women may now also be increasing in the UK. While not itself connected to any terrorist acts, Hizb ut-Tahrir has courted controversy and politicians have seized on some of its more inflammatory views. Nazreen Nawaz is a spokeswoman for the group.

She became a member while studying medicine at King's College London. Today, sitting at her dining table in south London, she teaches her four-year-old daughter how to spell and explains her decision to join. There are concerns that hundreds of British Muslim women have been radicalised, many while being students. Recent intelligence reports about terror plots involving women, and the growing trend of al-Qaeda's use of female suicide bombers, have ignited concerns that some may turn to violent extremism in Britain.

The group was set up in by Hazel Blears, the then communities and local government minister, partly to tackle extremism.

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In , a British Muslim woman - year-old Shella Roma from Oldham - became the first person in the country to be convicted of distributing a terrorist publication. At the east London-based Minhaj-ul-Quran, a broad-based organisation with Sufi traditions, extremism is something that they are working to eradicate. At a mosque in a converted cinema in Forest Gate, east London, they hold regular Sunday female-only study circles.