To hell with #solidarity. If Europe is willing to accept that Muslim terror is simply the new normal we can't afford to stay part of it.
Airports today bear no resemblance to what was considered 'normal' 20 years ago. And after this they will no doubt feel even more locked-down, unfriendly and inconvenient. You are not fighting back. You are just taking extraordinary risks and hoping for the best because no one else seems to be doing anything but sharing pictures and hashtags and solidarity — which are meaningless gestures.
Normalising terror has all been part of the ISIS agenda.
Their tentacles of power have reached out across Europe, making it normal for gay men to be thrown from buildings, encouraging us to watch as heads are sliced from bodies and small boys shoot grown men in the back of the head.
Men drowning in cages, women being stoned for being raped and dead men emptying into rivers of blood is something we can access on any news channel any day of the week.
And it is a thirst we now look to quench with the terror they wreak here on home soil. Minutes after the attacks on the airport at Brussels the first images appeared.
And I questioned how belonging to these neighbouring nations made us safer. How we were better off in the European Union.
The sanctimonious said it was too early to politicise human suffering. But it was not too early for them to sit gawping at the pictures, to scramble to be the first to come up with a cartoon, to rush to own the drama, to find a public square to be part of the action.
The idea of fighting back, of resilience, of a nation being brought closer together is a popular one in the media. It plays to our desire for a happy ending, where boy gets girl and it's all happy ever after. And perhaps I wanted to buy into that after Paris.
But this time I am sceptical. All I see is we have become so used to ISIS winning small battles and destroying life that we aren't going to open our eyes and notice when they storm over in greater numbers and win a war we never had the courage to fight.
Belgium is a sink hole for terror. It breeds extremists in Muslim enclaves, fuelled by imported imams with the most hellish interpretation of Islam.
It welcomed back jihadis from Syria to continue their fight within Europe, to colonise, take-over not integrate.
Muslims make up 26 per cent of metropolitan Brussels. The self-styled capital of Europe is now one of the most Islamic cities in Europe.
But on June 23 we really do have the opportunity - probably our last - to say never again. To get out, once and for all.
Typically, the only man talking tough after yesterday's attacks was Donald Trump - who 'mainstream' politicians abhor and ignore.
We need to stop allowing jihadis to return to Europe, prevent extremist imams accessing young minds and spreading their religious brand of hate, and stop communities colonising parts of Europe where former generations of immigrants used to integrate.
Until then you can draw cartoons, light up the Eiffel Tower, start a hashtag and carry on catching the Underground all you want. You can even pretend you are standing up to the suicide bombers. You can even make out Islam is the religion of peace, as Channel 4 do on a nightly basis.
The Managing Editor of Channel 4 News tweeted me last night, asking if I would share a picture of the people of Belgium chalking words of defiance in the public square as if they were all suddenly infantilised by their impotence.
I refused.
Because, you see, you are not standing up to terror. You are normalising it. Giving it a shiny coat. Pretending it's all going to be OK because we know what to do when bad stuff happens.
We must not accept this terror as part of our everyday. We must look for strong leadership and implement obvious solutions.
ISIS are winning the battle. If we keep our heads in the sand, they will win the war for control of Europe, too.
