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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 28 May
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** Secularism in the media
* Sikh temple attack and stabbing being treated as hate crimes <[link removed]>
A 31-year-old Derby man has appeared in court after following a stabbing in Normanton which police are treating as a hate crime. He has also been charged with burglary in connection with an earlier incident which saw a Sikh temple attacked.
Derbyshire Live
* Harrow mosque responds to Covid-19 call to prayer petition <[link removed]>
A mosque that wants to play the 'call to prayer' during the Covid-19 pandemic said it has "no intention of disturbing the community". It applied for permission for an initial three months, but representatives said they could look to extend this if measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic continued.
This Is Local London
* Police issue further warning to hotel over Jewish prayer gathering <[link removed]>
Police have attended the Normandie Hotel in Bournemouth for the third time in two weekends following reports of an alleged minyan (Jewish prayer gathering) being held on the site.
The JC
* Gin bar given license despite concerns from nearby mosque <[link removed]>
A gin bar and distillery has been given a licence despite concerns from members of a neighbouring mosque that worshippers will 'experience increased Islamophobia'.
Essex Live
* Over 100 mosques sign letter demanding UK watchdog investigate Conservative Party for 'Islamophobia' <[link removed]>
Over a hundred mosques and 40 Islamic organisations have signed a letter demanding that the UK's equalities watchdog investigate the Conservative Party over allegations of 'Islamophobia'.
Newsweek
* 'Malta looks to Ireland in campaign for legal abortion' <[link removed]>
"If the pandemic arrived prior to 2019, women would have been unable to travel for abortions, resulting in an increase in the number seeking abortion pills online. The island of Malta, which prohibits abortion, is currently in that situation."
RTE
* 'Nothing divides America more than tossing politics into a heated religious debate' <[link removed]>
"Since the founding of America, religion has been at the center of many of the most contentious conflicts our nation has encountered. We should have known it would be only a matter of time before the church was inserted into the coronavirus pandemic."
Chicago Tribune
** The latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign
* Scotland's faith schools are a divisive anachronism <[link removed]>
Dividing children by religion is inefficient and out of step with Scottish society - and giving religious groups control over schools undermines children's religious freedom, says experienced teacher Eric from Edinburgh.
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