My name is Slamet Riyanto and i'm Islam. But i WILL NOT SUPPORT SAUDI ARABIA GOVERNMENT to beheading this woman! This is wrong, very wrong! This is just like "Salem Witch Trial" ver. saudi arabia. Man, when i tought my government is mostlikely like an idiot, but saudi arabia is even more worst...

Slamet Riyanto, Jakarta, Indonesia

She turned me into a newt......but I got better.

john, Santa Fe, USA

Perhaps witchcraft can be incorporated into the British legal system, Dr Williams. After all, many people seem to believe in it and who are we, after all, to criticise ? And it's only eighty years since the last witch-burning in Hungary, so in the interests of cultural preservation, why not bring it back ? All cultures are equally valid in their own terms, including Hungarian culture, so let's show how culturally sensitive we all are, and recognise everybody's witch prevention practices. A bit of the ducking chair might straighten out a few of those uppity women - and restore and preserve culture at the same time !

Joe Lane, Adelaide, Australia

The day the oil dries up and Saudi Arabia returns to total insignificance cannot come too soon.

Mike, Brighton, England

"..a man... claimed that she rendered him impotent with her sorcery." Well of course they take a man's word over a woman's on any ridiculous grounds! And the Archbishop of Canterbury wants Sharia law here! Watch out Wiccans, Harry Potter fans, and Druids!

Mary Carpenter, Manchester, England

Yet we invaded Iraq and not Saudi Arabia, despite their extreme anti-democratic Sharia and the fact that most of the 9/11 terrorists, and Osama bin laden, were Saudi! And the West keeps on letting Muslims in and pandering to them! What a farce!

Charlotte Browning, Bolton, England

I'm sorry- please remind me once again, what century are we in now?

Scott Benowitz, Rye, New York, U.S.A.

If ever there were proof needed, and obviously it's not given the constant medieval excesses perpetrated in many Arab countries, Islamic culture, which once led the world has degenerated into a priest-ridden, ignorant, brutal system of unequal and oppressive laws.

The big problem for the world is that Islam is a proselytising religion with too much of this drive coming from extremists. Christianity was as bad in its own time, but, in the main it seems to have grown out of the worst excesses (although in some Christian countries even this is a relatively recent phenomenon).

It is to be hoped that the world will survive long enough for Islam to get back to its more civilised middle years.

Bill , Derby,