Nothing propels the advance of the Western anti-immigration right like a renewed display of Islamist fanaticism. And so it was that Austria’s terrorism near-miss in August fed straight into the first, thumping, national victory of the right-wing, anti-immigration Freedom party. A gang of young Muslim psychopaths, radicalised by Islamic State, planned to attack up to 87,000 fans going to a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna with a suicide car bomb and knives.
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