I ENJOYED Peter Mullen’s column about his friend, Dr Rowan Williams, the out-going Archbishop of Canterbury, but I don’t recognise the world that Mr Mullen sees Christians inhabiting (Echo, Sept 11).

Christians can wear whatever they want to represent their views, and I sympathise with Christians who in parts of the world are treated badly by Muslims. I think it outrageous that a girl in Pakistan has been arrested and still might be convicted for blasphemy because it is alleged, using apparently planted evidence, that she tore up pages of the Koran. I am sure so does Dr Rowan Williams.

I define myself as an agnostic and almost a Buddhist but I have good Christian friends. I also speak to Muslims who, so far as I can judge, are decent and tolerant.

The good development in my life is that the antagonism between Catholics and Protestants which did exist when I was a youngster is no longer there. It is upsetting that in part of the UK, that is in Northern Ireland, this antagonism and intolerance exists.

Maybe the Christians put their own house in order before they lecture members of other faiths.

I rather suspect Mr Mullen might find it hard to do.

Geoffrey Bulmer, Billingham .