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’.

Last Sunday when I heard William Hague say: “Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear.” I was taken aback a little. One because as a Conservative peoples’ liberty and privacy is a serious and precious matter not to be taken lightly, and two it sounded and felt intrusively wrong and uncomfortably totalitarian.

Whereas Hague’s words did not fill me with confidence and to some extend chilled me, they had little effect on those much younger than myself. And that got me thinking.

Evolution is more than developing technology and the way we do things and conduct our affairs, it is also advancing the way we see, approach matters and deal with them.

The way I reacted to the phases was not shared by my kids and those in their age group, young people in their late teens and twenties.

The young people of today, who live their life in the open for all to see at the flick of a button, have a totally different attitude to me about privacy. While I was appalled at the idea of someone snooping through my private electronic communications, they were very relaxed. Their attitude was “We have nothing to hide so snoop away.”

Then my question is. Do people like myself need to evolve and change our old ways. Need to understand the cost of our safety and security is to relinquishing certain old values of liberty and privacy, or do young people lack the experience and don’t know what they are letting themselves into?

What say you?