Jihad never sleeps - today's edition

Europe under siege:

Terrorist savages have struck Europe again, claiming another life in a seemingly endless tide of violence.

It is horrific. Indeed, it is especially horrific – a Catholic priest had his throat cut in the middle of Mass.

But attack after attack strains everybody’s ability to respond with the levels of emotion such atrocities demand.

Earlier today a doctor was shot dead by a patient in a German clinic, but attention was dragged elsewhere by events in Normandy almost immediately.

In the previous week in Germany alone there has been a fatal machete attack, an axe attack on a train, a suicide bombing and a shooting rampage in a shopping mall.

It is twelve days since crazed trucker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel mowed down 84 people – ten of them children – in Nice. 

It was only late March when three suicide bombers killed more than 30 people in Brussels, which in turn came months after the larger-still rampage in Paris – about which horrors are still emerging.

Memo to the good folks of that continent: never let the term "new normal" come from your lips.