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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 9 September
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** Secularism in the media
* Scottish Conservatives launch bid to scrap hate crime bill - NSS mentioned <[link removed]>
The Scottish Conservatives will attempt to scrap the Scottish Government's controversial hate crime bill when it is debated in parliament.
Holyrood
* Free to Disagree campaign: ‘It’s time to end the hate crime bill saga’ - NSS mentioned <[link removed]>
It's hard to think of a policy proposal in recent years that has been met with more criticism than the hate crime bill, says Jamie Gillies.
The Press and Journal
* Aberdeen City Council calls for ‘strengthening’ of definitions within controversial hate crime bill - NSS mentioned <[link removed]>
Aberdeen City Council is among the organisations to have waded into the debate around Scotland's new hate crime bill by suggesting the language is "strengthened" to allow a balance between respecting freedom of speech and tackling hate crime.
Evening Express
* NI school governor system reinforces division, says report <[link removed]>
Selecting school governors on the basis of their affiliation with a church rather than their management skills reinforces community division, a new report suggests.
BBC
* MPs compare China to Nazi Germany as Beijing is accused of ‘systematic ethnic cleansing’ of Uighurs <[link removed]>
A letter signed by more than 120 MPs and peers, including senior Tories and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, has accused China of a "systematic and calculated programme of ethnic cleansing" against the country's Uighur Muslim minority.
iNews
* Dudley councillor to face standards committee over alleged Islamophobic tweets <[link removed]>
Councillor Colin Elcock will answer claims he wrote tweets saying Islam was 'domination not integration', and asking whether people in Iran were 'all on the dole'.
Express and Star
* British IS suspects escaping from Syrian detention camps <[link removed]>
British female Islamic State (IS) suspects have been smuggled out of detention camps in northeast Syria, with some raising funds online to pay for further escapes, according to jihadist social media activity.
The Telegraph
* Christian sentenced to death in Pakistan after being accused of 'blasphemy' <[link removed]>
A Christian man has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for sending 'blasphemous' texts to a former supervisor at work.
Mail Online
* Instagram apologises for temporarily disabling accounts of Charlie Hebdo staff <[link removed]>
Instagram has apologised for temporarily disabling the accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists, who had shared the front page of the magazine with the reproduction of cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammad.
Euronews
* US: Bishop-elect resigns after being accused of sexually abusing a minor <[link removed]>
Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of a priest whom he had chosen to become the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese in Duluth, Minnesota, after a nearly 40-year-old allegation of sexual abuse of a minor emerged against the clergyman, church officials said.
The New York Times
** In case you missed it...
* Thousands sent to faith schools against their families’ preferences <[link removed]>
More than 130,000 children have been sent to faith schools in England against their parents' preferences since 2014, the NSS has found.
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