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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 5 August

In the Media <[link removed]>, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.

** Secularism in the media

* Humanists claim victory in battle to sit on RE councils <[link removed]>

Humanists say a London council has backed down in the face of a legal challenge after trying to bar them from sitting on its standing advisory council on religious education, which sets the local RE curriculum.

Tes

* ‘C of E scorned for views on school worship’ – NSS quoted <[link removed]>

The Church of England's chief education officer has defended collective worship in schools, prompting criticism from the NSS and others.

The Freethinker (Patheos)

* Qatar accused of using British bank to ‘promote’ Islamist causes <[link removed]>

A British bank controlled by the Qatari state is providing financial services to multiple British organisations linked to Islamists.

The Times (£)

* ‘The smearing of Andrew Norfolk’ <[link removed]>

Hardeep Singh says Times reporter Andrew Norfolk has been denounced as a racist for exposing Muslim grooming gangs.

Spiked Online

* Lincolnshire non-Muslim girls asked to wear hijab for a day <[link removed]>

Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination.

BBC

* ‘Marriage is an unequal institution that belongs in the past’ <[link removed]>

Clare Chambers explains why she campaigns for a marriage-free state.

New Statesman

* Conservative Party chair says inquiry into Tory ‘Islamophobia’ will go ahead <[link removed]>

The Conservative Party is planning to hold an inquiry into 'Islamophobia' in its ranks, party chairman James Cleverly has said.

The Independent

* Australian cancer patient first to use new assisted dying law <[link removed]>

An Australian woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to end their life under new assisted dying laws, a charity says.

BBC

* New Zealand unveils bill to legalise abortion <[link removed]>

New Zealand has announced a bill to legalise abortion for all women that would reclassify terminations as a health matter rather than a crime.

The Guardian

* Man gets £20k compensation from NHS after he went in for Botox and ended up circumcised <[link removed]>

A pensioner has been awarded £20,000 compensation after getting circumcised by mistake.

Daily Star

* ‘Why so few US politicians come out as atheists’ <[link removed]>

David Smith says non-believers remain few and far between in US politics, with being an atheist treated as being anti-religious.

The Guardian

** Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

* Faith based selection sends a damaging message to our children <[link removed]>

Joanne Bartley, a campaigner with the group Comprehensive Future, argues that a comprehensive education system should also be free of religious selection.

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