Letter: Hoddle in the dock

Sir: The scorn and contempt with which one of the central beliefs of two of the world's great religions has been first distorted and then derided as "bizarre superstition" reveals an embarrassing ignorance and an arrogant disdain which has it roots in racial and cultural prejudice.

Glenn Hoddle might in future heed the advice of another beleaguered spiritual heretic who cautioned against casting pearls before swine.

SIERRA HUTTON-WILSON

Evercreech,

Somerset