Islamic terror, with ISIS (Islamic State) behind several attacks and averted terror plots, have returned to Europe. But in truth, it never really went away.

A suspected ISIS member has stabbed three people to death in Solingen, Germany, shortly after a mass-casualty plot at a Taylor Swift concert was foiled in Vienna, Austria. In October, an Islamist extremist killed a 70-year-old man in Hartlepool, in the north-east of England, inspired by Hamas. And yet time and again politicians seem desperate to just mourn and move on, while shushing any discussion of the ideology motoring this barbarism. Here, Tom Slater explains the high cost of the elites’ cowardice, as jihadist carnage risks becoming Europe’s new normal.