I think the treatment of British school teacher, Gillian Gibbons, shows why millions of Muslims clamour to escape from barbaric, mediaeval regimes such as that in the Sudan, in order to live in a benevolent and free Western Society.

The very fact that an elderly woman can be threatened with 40 lashes for such an innocent action shows the fundamental incompatibility between Islamic and Western values.

The treatment of women in these Middle Eastern and African cultures is totally abhorrent, and I wonder whether the same brutish punishment would be threatened if a man had been accused.

For pity’s sake, it was only a teddy bear and his name was chosen by innocent school kids. That evil can be read into such an innocent action illustrates the twisted ideology of the mullahs involved in this outrage.

By the way - Mohammed is the second most popular name in England - I think that makes a mockery of this latest piece of Islamic nonsense.

And a second By the way - Are all the children who chose the name Mohammed to be lashed as well?

I hope our Government are moving heaven and earth to obtain the release of this British subject, and I hope they make it perfectly clear that should a hair of her head be harmed, or so much as a little finger laid on her, then the repercussions will be very, very serious.