I remember when I was at school there was a manual called the Jolly Roger Cookbook being passed around. This contained instructions on how to make various poisons, bombs and fuses as well as information on commiting fraud and theft. Most people had a copy of this. I know that we would never have used any of the information to hurt people but it was thrilling possessing this information. At about the same time I was, like many teenagers, becoming interested in politics, particularly socialist and anarchist ideologies.
There is no way I would ever have commited any terrorist activity but you can see how it would have been easy for me to be labelled a potential terrorist of the Red Army Faction, Angry Brigade variety.
Samina sounds like a silly young women and little more.

Tom, Barcelona,

I like the bit where Muhammad Abdul Bari, of the Muslim Council of Britain, says that this lady has been prosecuted for "thought crime".

If the Archbishop of Caterbury called on all Anglicans to pray for a plague on Islam, would Mr Bari consider those prayers to be the ultimate in harmless thought crime.

Paul Martin, Birmingham, UK

Our cowardly poilticians and Judges are beyond belief,we need to confront these muslim extremists,the longer they appease the worst it will be,give her what she wants,martydom.but on our terms

Steve Roach, Scunthorpe, UK

nobody else think it's a bit far to actually prosecute her? She hasn't actually done anything wrong no? i mean, she was/is wrong but then so are Nick Griffin, professional Racist, and the bloody pussycat dolls, should we arrest them for espousing/idiolising/having related information on ther pc's, rhubarbery?
yes actually
fuck it
lets execute them
bloody communists
'Utterly unbelievable what these people get away with in this Marxist State of Britain', get you helena
Seems obvious though that she was just a pretender, getting kicks out of the romantic mein kampf side of islamic extremism, nobody else ever made a mistake an gone down a silly road cos it looks cool, innit? Like smoking Lots of Weed.
It's good that she got a suspended sentence, would have been outrageous if she had got more. Where is the freedom? Theres no way this 'anti-terror' legislation is a good thing, were any of you terrified by her actions?
get rid of that and speed cameras and we will be a better nation

Irving Washington , Bangor,

Contrast the sentence imposed on Samina Malik with that on Gillian Gibbons ...........say no more!

John , Ayr, Scotland

As for the comment of voting BNP in future then you have the right to. Do you belive this will make things better and that "thay" can be sent home. If you want to live in a country filled with religious hatred and breeding martyrs (like what the west created in Israil) then vote that way. France is messed up and that is down to le-pens hitler like views gaining such a following surly Britain shouldnt go that way.
As for the muslim council of Britain they seem quite a reasonable non-extremest bunch to me who often speak out against fellow muslims as recently they did in the case of the jailed teacher.
I do not really know enough about the case to know if the judge made the right decision but lets not let one young lady damage religious relationships in Britain.
We should be proud of our religious tolerance in this country and try to live together in peace.

Rich, Bristol, uk

Let's just imagine for a minute what the reaction would be in the middle east (Saudia Arabia perhaps) if a Christian woman was found to be writing poems of this nature and looking forward to killing a large number of Muslims by blowing herself up in Mecca.

Would she have got a fair trial, with proper defence counsel pleading that she is immature (at 23!) and didn't mean it and a sentence which is a warning plus a bit of community service ..... I don't think so.

Dr Bari, as ever, ignores all these facts and pleads that the case against this potential terrorist shouldn't have gone to court. Why do Muslim 'leaders' persist in ignoring the evidence of extremism in their community.

Donna Walker, Effingham, Surrey

She worked in the airport for Gods sake! I'm so sick of this cowardly country and its appeasing attitude to Muslims.
If we dont get a grip on this sooner or later we'll wake up to something unthinkable soon.

Fred, Dumfries, UK

Utterly unbelievable what these people get away with in this Marxist State of Britain.
The MCB and its ludicrus mouthpiece Bari must be barely able to contain their contempt for our judiciary and its craven attitude to all things Muslim.
Having tried all the political parties and read their caveats about how "peacful" Islam is I've decided to vote BNP in the future.
Any prty who is gagged and given "no platform" for telling it like it is must be doing something right I figure.
France is burning nightly in Muslim ghettoes, how long before it kicks off here?

Helena, Scotland, UK

its not the poems that get me its the manuals she is a very lucky girl. to live in a country where you can do what she has and get slapped with a bit of comunity service. lucky she should play lotto

some how i dont think it will make her see the error of her ways glad i moved away

richard, auckland, new zealand

Eurabia here we come. We Yanks do not seem to do much better, but does it seem somewhat odd that Samina Malik worked in a somewhat secure Heathrow Airport setting. Now, she's been given the opportunity by the court to make others know that there is no real cost for her actions. Rather emboldening, some would say.

Again, we in the colonies do'nt have the matter resolved yet, either.

bill -- USA

bill, las vegas,

From the BBC News website:

Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Muhammed Abdul Bari, told the Times he did not think the case should have reached court.

"Many young people download objectionable material from the internet, but it seems if you are a Muslim then this could lead to criminal charges, even if you have absolutely no intention to do harm to anyone else"

Absolutely no intention to do harm?

Dr Bari seems not to have read the evidence that Malik was "looking forward to becoming a martyr".

Odd that.

Patrick, Harrogate, UK

So Dr Bari what do we do? Wait until she blows herself up along with a dozen innocent people? It is a bit late to be concerned about her actions then. Surely we have to take some precautions against a woman who declares herself ready for martyrdom and describes in grisly, morbid detail the disgusting process of cutting off someone's head with a knife.At the very least she is mentally disturbed. Perhaps we should ask what are you doing in the Muslim community to supress the preachers of hate and martyrdom who brainwash naive young women like Samina?

David, Uzes, France