There used to be a time when an Islamist terror attack would make the world stand still. When the murder of innocents by religious extremists had the power to shock us. To force us to sit upright. To ask how our society has nurtured this lethal threat – and how we might best protect ourselves from it. Yet the response, or lack thereof, to this weekend’s knife attacks in Paris suggests we are no longer even moved by these gruesome acts of terror. In Europe at least, they are becoming dangerously normalised.
