Despite the wake-up call of September 11th, there are many Americans and Europeans who delude themselves into believing that the threat posed by radical Islam is fleeting, and that normalcy is just around the corner. If we can only sit down with terrorists, the placaters believe, they will see that we are good people and they will leave us alone. How many more wake-up calls does the West need?

The Dutch government yesterday vowed tough measures against what a leading politician called “the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands” after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found spiked with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Muslim attacker.