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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 3 September

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

* ‘Muslim Slayer’ letters caused security alert <[link removed]>

A self-styled 'Muslim Slayer' prompted a chemical alert by sending fake poison to the queen with a note saying 'The Clowns R Coming 4 You', a court heard yesterday.

Metro

* 'A critical point in history': how Trump's attack on LGBT rights is escalating <[link removed]>

The Trump justice department is pushing to make it legal to fire people for being gay or transgender.

The Guardian

* Muslim woman’s niqab is ripped off as she’s ‘beaten in London street in front of her horrified children’ <[link removed]>

A Muslim woman had her niqab ripped off and was repeatedly punched in the face by a female thug in front of her children on Sunday.

The Sun

* Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas' <[link removed]>

The newly discovered 'Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others' shows Enlightenment thinker John Locke expressing unexpected social liberalism.

The Guardian

* US federal court to hear arguments over Tennessee's abortion waiting period <[link removed]>

Four years after the US state of Tennessee enacted a law requiring women who want an abortion to undergo a 48-hour "waiting period," a legal challenge to its constitutionality is poised to move forward.

Tennessean (USA Today)

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* Don’t expect the Church of England to unify the country <[link removed]>

Chris Sloggett says asking the archbishop of Canterbury to chair a forum on Brexit is a mistake.

Uncommon Ground Media

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