I think so.

Terrorist attacks that occur in Europe get 24/7 media coverage and the journalists add in hypothetical scenarios on what could happen next. The media is part of the problem when they show the event on tv coverage 24/7 on continuous replay. Then you get your politicians on to claim that we are not scared, we will continue to live our normal lives and we will not let the terrorists win.

Well, it would probably be a good start to stop with the ridiculous amounts of collateral damage that paints the west as the enemy. Demonizing Islam probably doesn't help either. In general, we need to ease up the tensions to prevent the creation of new terrorists. We can deal with the existing ones, painful though it might be, the problem is the recruitment of new people into terrorism. There's probaly not very much we can do about existing terrorists, although it doesn't mean we should stop fighting terrorism. What we can do something about is people getting recruited into terrorism, and that'll be the long-term solution.

Ideally, we'd stabilize the unstable regions, but I don't think anyone's going to commit to that. It's probably ridiculously expensive, not that helpful aside from easening the terrorism situation, and could require painful compromises/decisions (e.g. supporting al-Assad to stabilize Syria). I don't think the ones pulling the strings see terrorism as enough of a threat to really make those compromises and really, terrorism isn't a huge problem. It's really visible, it's bad, it's wrong, but it's also much, much less lethal than a lot of other things (e.g. traffic). Obviously we should try to act against terrorism, but considering its relatively limited effects, there's only so much we can afford to do about it.

yes and no.

Islam had killed hundreds of millions in its history. For instance the Delhi sultanate. Easily the largest genocidal regime of all time. Hundreds of millions of Hindus butchered over several centuries.

However I do believe it is on the rise compared to recent history. (say since mid 19th century).

So basically it has been much worse, but it seems worse now than it has been at times in the past.

No. Just more frequent. Still worrying non the less.

Where does this even come from.

I would say it means it's getting more desperate.

No it's not, it's just returning to a normal after 20 years of unusual calm.

I guess people on this board are either americans, to young or both.

Let me refresh your memories with a couple of names that spring to my mind.

Brigado Rosso
Baader-Meinhof
IRA
ETA

EDIT:// Bonus name: Aum Shinrikyo

I think we have just right amount of terrorism.

not really