Another terror attack on London - Confronting the enemy within

Saturday night’s terror attack in London, which left seven people dead and 48 injured, continues a pattern that the West has had to accept as the new normal. 

This reality stands, even if terrorists inflict carnage on a far greater scale in Islamic countries like Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, where 80 people were murdered in just one car bomb last week.

Condemning the attack, British prime minister Theresa May said it was “time to say enough is enough”, though she did not explain how that declaration might be turned into a positive action that would make it far more difficult for Islamic extremists to fulfil their incomprehensible, medieval death wish and kill as many ‘infidels’ as possible while doing so. And there’s the rub. Just as these islands struggled to neutralise the threat of republican or loyalist terrorists just two decades ago, the options, at least those defined by modern European sensibilities, are very limited.