"Sandy Mitchell has terrifying first-hand experience of being on the wrong side of sharia law.

Mr Mitchell, 52, was falsely accused of being involved in a car bombing in Saudi Arabia in 2000 when he was working there as an anaesthetic technician.

He was held in prison for three years and tortured until he eventually signed a confession, which he later had to read out on Saudi television.
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A sharia court sentenced him to having his head partially severed, followed by public crucifixion.

The sentence was later reduced to beheading, before the Saudi authorities finally conceded that al-Qa'eda terrorists had planted the bomb and let Mr Mitchell return home to Halifax, West Yorks.

Yesterday he accused the Archbishop of Canterbury of "betraying" Christians with his comments on Islamic law.

He said Dr Rowan Williams clearly had "absolutely no concept of what sharia law is", because if he did, "he wouldn't have made such a foolish statement".

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Someone else who either doesn't have any concept of Sharia Law or she does and she supports it.

In an official press release from the beehive, Helen Clark declares that.....

"New Zealand fully respects the judicial system of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"