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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 18 September
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** Secularism in the media
* Ofsted will mark down schools that don't teach pupils about LGBT relationships - NSS quoted <[link removed]>
Schools that fail to teach about same-sex relationships risk being marked down by inspectors, according to new guidance. The NSS has criticised the guidance for seemingly permitting faith schools to teach that being LGBT is morally wrong.
Mail Online
* Circumcision practitioner charged with assaulting children <[link removed]>
A man has been charged with assaulting children while performing circumcisions in several English counties.
BBC
* Justice Secretary given deadline to announce Hate Crime changes to MSPs <[link removed]>
Humza Yousaf has been given a deadline to notify Holyrood of changes to the SNP's controversial Hate Crime Bill.
The Herald
* Unicef condemns jailing of teen for 'blasphemy' in Nigeria <[link removed]>
The UN children's agency Unicef has called on the Nigerian authorities to urgently review an Islamic court's decision to sentence a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for 'blasphemy'.
BBC
* 'Britain needs to confront the question of blasphemy' <[link removed]>
The level of infiltration of Pakistani politics surrounding 'blasphemy' into the British diaspora is dangerous, says Charlotte Littlewood.
The Article
* Former Attorney General to lead review into vetting of trustees at Islamic Relief Worldwide <[link removed]>
Dominic Grieve will conduct the exercise after two of the charity's trustees stepped down because of antisemitic comments they had made on social media.
Third Sector
* Poland: Legislation banning halal and kosher meat exports tabled <[link removed]>
Kosher meat producers protested in Warsaw on Wednesday against new legislation going through parliament with the support of animal rights groups.
France 24
* Clues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends Uighur camps <[link removed]>
The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, in a white paper that also revealed some details of the breadth of its labour program.
The Guardian
* Myanmar army probes 'wider patterns' of abuse against Rohingya Muslims <[link removed]>
The Myanmar military has said it is investigating "possible wider patterns of violations" before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims.
Reuters
* Hindu man jailed in Bangladesh for 'insulting' Islamic Prophet Mohammed <[link removed]>
A Hindu has been jailed for seven years in Muslim-majority Bangladesh for 'insulting' the Islamic Prophet Mohammed on Facebook, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Eastern Eye
* Tel Aviv bars rebrand as synagogues to protest virus lockdown rules <[link removed]>
The owners of a number of Tel Aviv bars have declared their businesses to be synagogues, in protest of government lockdown plans that on the one hand will prevent all bars and restaurants from operating during the closure, while on the other allow dozens to take part in prayers at houses of worship throughout the country.
The Times of Israel
* 'Trial of Catholic lay leader highlights gaps in church’s sex abuse oversight' <[link removed]>
Piero Alfio Capuana, the lay leader of the 5,000-member Catholic Culture and Environment Association, is accused of delegating his associates to select and organise his targets, some as young as 11 years old.
Religion News Service
** The latest from the NSS
* Religious belonging in decline in Scotland, official survey finds <[link removed]>
The NSS has called for a rethink of religion's role in Scotland's schools after a survey found most Scots don't belong to a religion.
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Note: Yesterday's media briefing suggested a proposed assisted dying bill had been tabled in Northern Ireland. It was instead tabled in the Republic of Ireland.
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