For some the word ‘Islam’ and all its derivatives are enough to cause hysteria.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson commenting that “radicalised Muslim children should be put in care” is the same as anyone saying “abused children should be put in care”. The only difference between the two statements is the word ‘Islam’.

If we take the word ‘Islam or Muslim’ out of the equation, then radicalising and turning children into a walking killing machines is wrong, inhuman and illegal.

And here no one will disagree that it merits those children being removed from that environment and put into care.

I will go further than Mayor Johnson and charge the parents with child abuse and neglect – then deport those who aren’t British and strip the ones who are naturalised from their British citizenship.

Radicalising and turning British youngsters into fundamentalists killers should come at a very high cost to those involved either via training, harbouring or just even knowing and suspecting yet do nothing about it. In this day and age all acts of home-grown terrorism should be treated as treason and punished accordingly.

Because the job of government is to protect its people from all threats both foreign and domestic.

For far too long Britain was a soft touch and weak against the backdrop of human rights, personal liberty and freedom of expression, and it is high time for all of that to change.

If the security people and counter terror experts think, to keep us safe, radicalised children need to be put in care then they should and must be removed into care. Which then means Boris Johnson is right, and in the words of my daughter Tasneem, “We need to fix up”. We need to stop being too sensitive, we need to stop constantly tip toeing around issues of fear that we might offend.

Because offending doesn’t cost lives and destroy families but terrorism does.

As for those who ask why single out Muslims extremists and not the BNP or the EDL? As a Muslim myself, I say to them extremism and terrorism in the name of Islam killed in 7/7, 9/11 and last year butchered Lee Rigby in Woolwich. None of the others mass killed or butchered a British solider in a London street then publicly and jubilantly celebrated it!

That’s why the focus in this particular instance is on Islamic radical fundamentalism, and we do need to ‘fix up’.