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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 25 February
In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Government: unregistered yeshivas illegal, unsafe and will be closed <[link removed]>
The government has responded to news that yeshivas in Hackney sought a "quid pro quo" on the curriculum in return for safeguarding Jewish boys by calling the yeshivas "illegal and unsafe".
Jewish News
* ‘Why the UK has the only parliament with reserved places for clerics - aside from Iran’ <[link removed]>
The House of Lords seats 26 Church of England bishops - and politicians from the all-party parliamentary humanist group are calling for reform.
iNews
* ‘End the British Medical Association’s opposition to assisted dying’ <[link removed]>
Campaigners and medical campaigners urge BMA members to vote in support of reform this Thursday.
The Guardian
* Tories must talk about anti-Muslim hate or risk boosting Islamists, says interfaith pioneer <[link removed]>
Boris Johnson's Conservative government must be seen to be tackling all forms of hatred equally - including that against Jews and Muslims - or risk giving a boost to Islamists, the director of the leading inter-faith organisation Faith Matters has warned.
The Jewish Chronicle
* Ryanair boss criticised for Muslim profiling comments <[link removed]>
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has been criticised for saying Muslim men should be profiled at airports.
BBC
* Top Catholic cardinal admits church destroyed documents on clergy sexual abuse <[link removed]>
German cardinal Reinhard Marx said on Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up.
CNN
* Four New York babies get herpes from Jewish circumcision rite in past 6 months <[link removed]>
At least four infants have contracted herpes in New York City in the past six months after undergoing a circumcision rite in which the ritual circumciser cleans the circumcision wound by oral suction.
Times of Israel
* ‘Iran’s ongoing war against its religious minorities’ <[link removed]>
Iran celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Islamic revolution by continuing its ongoing war against religious minorities.
openDemocracy
* Canada opens door to expanding assisted dying <[link removed]>
The Canadian government has put forward a bill to make medically-assisted death available to people who are not terminally ill.
BBC
** In case you missed it: from the NSS
* The bishops’ bench is an affront to democracy. Let’s scrap it <[link removed]>
A new bill proposes to end Church of England bishops' automatic right to sit in parliament. This religious privilege is part of an unjust status quo and should be addressed, says Stephen Evans.
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