Terrorist attacks blah blah airports dangerous blah blah threat level critical blah blah doctors arrested blah blah Australian government issues travel warning for people going to the UK blah blah Jodie how can you live there blah blah blah. Yes, there was a blazing car driven into an airport and luckily, mercifully, the only people this time with serious injuries are the terrorists themselves. Actually you know what? I intensely dislike that word 'terrorist'. It implies someone who creates terror, and for the most part, all these extremists are doing at the moment is creating a resilience and determination to continue life as normal. They should be called 'narrow-minded arrogant ignorant muppets'. Stop giving them press coverage across every sodding newspaper in the country, stop devoting column inches to their deeds and their activity, remove the PR oxygen that fans the flames of their 'cause' - another useless descriptor that has been attached to them - 'cause' implies something worthy, worthwhile when it's something laced with a hatred and putridity that I cannot and will not ever comprehend. You want to live under sharia law? F*ck off to a country where sharia law is already in place. My western values, dress sense, morals, religion don't please you? F*ck off somewhere where you can immerse yourself in the strictest interpretation of Islam on a day to day basis (I hear the Taleban are recruiting on the Afghani-Pakistani borders). The world is still a big enough place for you to live your way, me to live my way, and for us all to co-exist.

I went to Picadilly Circus yesterday (yes that's right, where the car bomb was found), because a grieving friend needed support and that's where she happened to be and let's face it, it's now probably one of the safest streets in the capital. Then I met Stu on Oxford Street (shock! another target!) for some last minute baby things before we boarded the tube home (ack! at another prime target!). You just get on with your life because if you don't, they've succeeded in intimidating you.

And one more thing while I'm riding about on my high horse (nice view from up here). Will people PLEASE stop referring to all Muslims as evil bad people. Christian fundamentalists murdered an abortion doctor a while ago but you don't hear all Christians across the globe being condemned as murderers. The people planning these attacks are a hard core extremist component and are not representative of all Muslims. Having said that, below is a comment from the BBC news website sent in by a reader (not me) which makes for interesting reading. Food for thought.

"I feel quite safe, much safer than I do in certain other countries I have visited. What would make me feel safer still is a concerted and very public exercise by the British Moslem community and their Imams, teachers and other senior figures to utterly condemn these barbaric practices being carried out supposedly in their name. I feel for any community singled out as pariah but they can and must help themselves and us to move towards mutual understanding by showing their disgust."

Whilst a failure to condemn should never be confused with active support for what has happened, I do join with this person and many others in wondering when the vociferous public condemnation by the leaders of the British Muslim community will occur. Silence is all too easy to misinterpret.

Rant over. Now I'm going back to thinking about my baby.