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Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 3 September

  

In the Media, 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

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

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’

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'

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

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)

  

In case you missed it: by the NSS

 

Don’t expect the Church of England to unify the country

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

Uncommon Ground Media

  

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