A series of deadly terrorist attacks, including a vehicle ramming in New Orleans, highlight a growing trend of violence fueled by extremist ideologies.
The new year began with deadly violence in the headlines. In New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US Army veteran from Texas, drove a pick-up truck into people celebrating in the city’s French quarter.
Even if these attacks were isolated, however, they form part of a pattern which includes another vehicle ramming attack outside Mossad’s headquarters in Ramat HaSharon in October and the killing of 145 people in March 2024 when terrorists associated with Islamic State Not every terrorist death can be attributed to some brand of militant Islam; but a great many can. Many lives were taken in 2024 under its banners in Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan, Somalia, Mozambique, Mali, Afghanistan, Niger, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Lebanon, India, Serbia, Nigeria, Oman and Burkina Faso. The experience of terrorism in the West has transformed rather than simply intensified. In the United Kingdom, we grew grimly accustomed to violence stoked by the conflict in Northern Ireland; the beginning of the peace process left only a brief respite before Islamic terrorism erupted, most notably in the multiple Tube and bus bombings on 7 July, 2005. Successive governments developed better and more sophisticated methods of preventing terror plots and trying to stop the radicalisation of young men, and the Security Service, MI5, can never be given enough credit for its tireless efforts over the past 20 years which have saved countless lives. Recently, however, we have seen the emergence of a kind of “back to basics” approach to mass killin
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