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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 26 June
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** Secularism in the media
* Justice secretary accused of confusion over hate crime bill - NSS quoted <[link removed]>
The SNP justice secretary's understanding of his hate crime bill has been questioned after he repeatedly misquoted a core part of the legislation. NSS head of communications Chris Sloggett is quoted.
The Times (£)
* Significant number of halal meat-eaters might be persuaded to switch to 'stunned' meat, survey suggests <[link removed]>
A significant number of British halal meat-eaters might be persuaded to switch to meat from stunned animals, if they were reassured that some forms of stunning are compatible with halal rules, suggest the results.
University of Bristol
* CofE clergy gained compensation equivalent to £46 million at abolition of slavery <[link removed]>
Almost 100 clergy in the Church of England received financial compensation when slavery was finally abolished in the 1830s, research by University College London (UCL) has found.
Church Times
* Rebecca Long-Bailey sacking reignites Labour turmoil over antisemitism <[link removed]>
Long-Bailey was summarily dismissed as shadow education secretary for sending an approving tweet about an interview in which the actor Maxine Peake said the US police tactic of kneeling on someone's neck was taught by the Israeli secret service.
The Guardian
* Woman disguised herself in Islamic niqab to rob beauty salon <[link removed]>
A woman who donned a full-length niqab and sunglasses as part of a plot to steal a £50,000 laser hair removal machine has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Mail Online
* South Park episodes containing prophet Muhammad removed from HBO Max <[link removed]>
Episodes of adult animation South Park containing depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad were removed from HBO Max.
The Independent
* Nonreligious people more accepting of homosexuality, research finds <[link removed]>
Those who are religiously unaffiliated tend to be more accepting of homosexuality, according to new figures.
Pew Research Center
* Clergy sex-abuse allegations triple, US Catholic bishops report <[link removed]>
US Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday that the church tallied 4,434 sex-abuse allegations against clergy in the 2018-19 audit year, triple the number seen the previous year, with much of the increase stemming from a wave of lawsuits and claims by survivors of decades-old molestation.
Los Angeles Times
* Catholic church in Detroit fires lesbian music director who is married to a woman <[link removed]>
A Catholic church in Detroit has fired its music director after someone learned that she was married to a woman, and urged the executives to invoke the church's 'morality clause'.
Mail Online
* 'Failed state Libya is vulnerable to an Islamist takeover' <[link removed]>
"The naming of a 25-year-old Libyan asylum seeker as a suspect in the brutal murder of three men in a Reading park provides a sobering reminder that, while the world finds itself – rightly – preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic, the threat of Islamist-inspired terrorism remains as potent as ever."
The Telegraph
** News from the NSS
* Independent faith schools being allowed to fail children, says NSS <[link removed]>
The government is allowing independent faith schools which raise serious concerns to fail inspections repeatedly, the NSS has warned.
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