A new Europol report today on terrorism in eight European Union member states finds that jihadist arrests doubled in 2016, rising for the third year in a row:

RELEASED! Europol’s 2017 EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report (#TESAT17) – Overview of #terrorism in the EU in 2016 https://t.co/0iN6RnWyBS pic.twitter.com/AGlJf20JZF — Europol (@Europol) June 15, 2017

#TESAT17: 142 failed, foiled & completed terrorist attacks in the EU in 2016. 1002 arrests.

Download report here: https://t.co/mMjkmWo2Zc pic.twitter.com/IxTnjVnz8X — Europol (@Europol) June 15, 2017

#UPDATE Some 718 suspects were arrested on offences relating to jihadist terror in 2016, Europol says https://t.co/XT7n2vMV8t — AFP news agency (@AFP) June 15, 2017

The number of people arrested on suspicion of Islamic terrorism in Europe rose for the third year in a row https://t.co/hQO9ZiCHa5 — POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) June 16, 2017

Deutsche Welle reports:

Europol, Europe’s top law-enforcement organization, said in its annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report that 718 suspects were arrested on offenses relating to jihadi terror in 2016, up from 395 in 2014. The number of attacks dropped from 17 in 2014 to 13 last year, six of which were linked to the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) group. The report noted that women and children, as well as young adults, were playing an increasingly important operational role. One in four of those arrested in Britain in 2016 were women, an 18 percent increase from 2015, Europol said […] In total 1,002 arrests were made in 2016 relating to terror activities. France had the highest number of arrest at 456, with almost a third of those detained 25 years or younger, Europol said. There were 142 “failed, foiled or completed terrorist attacks” including those by jihadis, more than half of them in the UK.

The Europol report breaks down the arrests by country, and notes that nearly all reported terror fatalities were from jihadist attacks:

In 2016, a total of 142 failed, foiled and completed attacks were reported by eight EU Member States. More than half (76) of them were reported by the United Kingdom. France reported 23 attacks, Italy 17, Spain 10, Greece 6, Germany 5, Belgium 4 and the Netherlands 1 attack. 142 victims died in terrorist attacks, and 379 were injured in the EU. Although there was a large number of terrorist attacks not connected with jihadism, the latter accounts for the most serious forms of terrorist activity as nearly all reported fatalities and most of the casualties were the result of jihadist terrorist attacks. Explosives were used in 40% of the attacks and women and young adults, and even children, are playing increasingly operational roles in committing terrorist activities independently in the EU. Most arrests were related to jihadist terrorism, for which the number rose for the third consecutive year.

Earlier this month I reported here at PJ Media on global terrorism statistics from 2016 showing that terrorism has tripled globally since 2011, with deaths from terrorism in OECD countries jumping a whopping 900 percent since 2007:

#ThanksObama Global Terrorism Has Tripled Since 2011: Now At An All Time High & Up 900% in OECD https://t.co/EVgKJs9SKl via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/0FzJILERd3 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) June 1, 2017

Since April I’ve been warning about another “Summer of Terror” — last year we saw an attack about every 100 hours:

Closing Out 2016's 'Summer of Terror': Since Nice 90 Days Ago, 20 Terror Attacks in the West, One Every 100 Hours https://t.co/A0hoNrTcMF pic.twitter.com/B0NBKDTNDU — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) October 12, 2016

Currently, Europe in 2017 is seeing an attempted terror attack every nine days:

2017 Has Seen a Terror Attack Attempted in Europe Every 9 Dayshttps://t.co/pkGilxUGM1 pic.twitter.com/7vyBikhFmf — Simon Harding (@gridnash) May 25, 2017

A new report on Western terrorism suspects published earlier this week found that since 2014, nearly one-third of jihadist attacks in the West occurred in the U.S., only outpaced by France:

It also found that terror sympathizers can be as dangerous as those with experience as foreign terrorist fighters. — Stewart Bell (@StewGlobal) June 14, 2017

Canada accounted for 6% of jihadist terror attacks in North America and Europe since 2014. pic.twitter.com/gZAjQQHRkR — Stewart Bell (@StewGlobal) June 14, 2017

Despite these reports about the rapid rise in Islamic terrorism in the West, and all over the world for that matter, there are some who assure us that everything is fine:

Europe’s terror threat is real. But its cities are much safer than you think https://t.co/mOAtPnJk90 pic.twitter.com/8mFoYc3WPo — World Economic Forum (@wef) June 13, 2017

The recent terror attacks in the UK give evidence that all may not be OK:

March 22: 4 killed, 50 hurt in vehicular attack near Parliament

May 22: 22 killed, 116 hurt in Manchester

June 3: At least 6 killed, 20 hurt https://t.co/Vvw8Xxv52j — Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) June 4, 2017

There are 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers https://t.co/BPK0iSadFa pic.twitter.com/FStaPim0OG — The Times (@thetimes) May 27, 2017

The Times: Huge scale of terror threat revealed: UK home to 23,000 jihadists: https://t.co/zZIJDIBmt8 pic.twitter.com/HRsEZ47gcj — John Bell (@JohnNemoBell) May 27, 2017

Yet London Mayor Sadiq Khan seems unalarmed by the escalating terror trend:

Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says Sadiq Khan https://t.co/j9IDbkM5Jb — The Independent (@Independent) September 22, 2016

But after the recent London Bridge terror attacks, Khan was evasive about the reported 400 potential terrorists living in his city:

How are we letting trained jihadis back into the UK without knowing where they are? Sadiq Khan grilled by Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan pic.twitter.com/G7yGWE5mkV — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 6, 2017

Sadly, the response by U.S. authorities about the scope and extent of the problem in the face of these startling terrorism statistics from these recent reports would most likely be as evasive as Khan’s unreassuring response.