'Religious savagery is too much to bear'

"Scour the newspapers and you might just spot the story about a 19-year-old Saudi woman who is to receive 200 lashes for being in the same car as a man who wasn't her husband or a relative. Her punishment is an act of such barbarity it triggers utter repulsion and fury. Sadly, the best we can do is recoil in horror at a religion prepared to condone the degradation of females...."

Sue Caroll in the Daily Mirror, 28 November 2007