Read on to find out what people are asking in this second and final week of the series.

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong is a leading religious historian.

I'd like to ask the Prophet Muhammad what he thinks of the current situation.

I think I know what he would say, but I would like Western people to hear the Prophet's abhorrence of these actions done in his name, abhorrence with the intolerance and hatred and violence that he dedicated his life to transcending.

I'd also like to hear him tell Muslims who believe that he would have endorsed these vile actions to look more seriously at the compassion of the Koran.

As for the West, he would say: 'Look at the message of the Koran' - which is all about treating all people equally, and that includes my Muslims in disadvantaged parts of the world who are struggling to make sense of lives in violent and hopeless situations.

Mary Robinson

I would like to have the opportunity to ask Aung San Suu Kyi what she would say about developments during 2005, and in particular her own leadership.

She was the elected democratic leader in Burma before the military takeover. The world has paid a certain amount of lip service, but has never taken [her situation] seriously enough.

She's a wonderful voice. She writes very well, she inspires her own people, and she inspires a great many people in the world - particularly women. Yet she has been silenced and very often forgotten.

Hopefully now with this idea of a collective responsibility to protect, we may be more interested in countries like Burma.

Boris Becker

Boris Becker was the youngest tennis player ever to win Wimbledon.

My person in history would be the Pope, because he's from Germany - Benedict XVI.

I would ask him about religion - about the Catholic Church, about all the fortune it has. You still have so many people starving with hunger who are believers, so what does he want to do about that?

I'm a religious person myself. The Pope is from Germany so I could speak in my other tongue. He is a very important and powerful man, and that would be my question.

Salim Lone

I would ask George Bush - the 1988-1992 US president - if he was aware that the sanctions his government pressed so hard to be imposed on Iraq would have such terrible consequences for Iraqi society and Iraqi children, as opposed to terrible consequences for Saddam Hussein?

And following that I would ask him - and I would ask this of President Clinton as well - 'once you discovered that so many Iraqi children were dying, did you not feel that this was not the right thing to do?'

I believe that for every politician - American, Russian, Pakistani or Kenyan - the first priority is how to stay in power, and they will do anything they can think they can get away with.

The good political leaders try hard to find ways to stay in power and help their people, their countries and the world, whereas others are much more cynical.

Tony Benn

Tony Benn is a former UK government minister and a leading figure on the left of the Labour Party.

I want to put this question to Moses.

'Dear Moses, I wanted to talk to you because you are accepted as a prophet by all three great religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - and because you believed in one God.

'I wanted to talk to you about the teachings of the prophets, because the Ten Commandments, for which you are most famous, indicate how we should live.

'There was a covenant which you signed, given by God, which apparently allocated Palestine to the Jews. I can't really believe that's what you intended, so if I may ask you the question, it would be how you interpret the way in which the teachings have been used to control people.

'Perhaps you could help me on that point?'

Boris Akunin

I would like to speak to Karl Marx, and I would like to ask him: Did he know what his writing in London would lead to?

I've wanted to ask him since I was a little schoolboy.