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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 21 September
In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news <[link removed]> and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts <[link removed]> on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Big changes predicted in hate crime bill over free speech fears <[link removed]>
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf is set to make "significant changes" to controversial new hate crime legislation, sources suggest.
The Sunday Post
* Charedi Jewish schools group welcomes Ofsted policy on LGBT <[link removed]>
Chinuch UK, the Charedi schools' group, has welcomed a statement from Ofsted recognising that primary schools do not have to teach children about same-sex relationships.
The JC
* Ofsted questions plans for strictly Jewish Orthodox girls' school in Westcliff <[link removed]>
Plans to open a Jewish school in Westcliff to cater for the new strictly Orthodox community that has settled in the Southend and Westcliff area have hit a problem after Ofsted said it would be unlikely to meet many of the independent school standards.
The JC
* MPs to investigate UK firms’ links with Chinese exploitation of Uyghur Muslims <[link removed]>
The extent to which UK businesses are exploiting the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China will be investigated by MPs in an inquiry probing the use of forced labour in UK supply chains.
Personnel Today
* Mother who fought sharia courts in Dubai to see her son is ordered to pay ex-husband's legal costs <[link removed]>
A British mother who fought the Sharia courts in Dubai for access to her son faces having to sell her home - after a UK judge ordered her to pay nearly £100,000 towards her ex-husband's legal costs.
Mail Online
* JK Rowling accused of 'Islamophobia' over book describing murder suspect 'dressed in a burqa carrying halal takeaway' <[link removed]>
JK Rowling has been accused of 'Islamophobia' after an extract of her 2014 crime novel The Silkworm was shared on Twitter.
Mail Online
* Christian school worker takes her dismissal fight to tribunal <[link removed]>
A Christian school assistant who was sacked for posting on Facebook about plans to teach LGBT relationships in primary schools is taking her case to an employment tribunal.
Premier Christian News
* Ireland: Catholics demanding Communion on the tongue a threat to public health, says priest
A Waterford priest has criticised as selfish the behaviour of Catholics who demand Communion on the tongue despite Covid-19 restrictions.
Irish Times
* US: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, liberal giant of the Supreme Court, dies <[link removed]>
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, has died at her home in Washington. She supported abortion rights, gay rights, affirmative action and the strict separation of church and state.
Los Angeles Times
* US: Head of Federal Election Commission calls separation of church and state a ‘fallacy’
James E. Trainor said the separation of church and state is "a fallacy" and that this year's US election amounts to a "spiritual war" that threatens the country's "Christian moral principles."
Religion News Service
* 'More and more Americans aren’t religious. Why are Democrats ignoring these voters?' <[link removed]>
Daniel Cox and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux say democrats are mostly ignoring a massive group of voters who are becoming an increasingly crucial part of their base: people who don't have any religion at all.
ThirtyFiveEight
* ISIS take over Mozambique islands and imposes sharia law <[link removed]>
Islamic State linked insurgents burned down hotels and imposed sharia law on Vamizi and Mecungo in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mozambique, which are favoured by movie stars.
Mirror
** The latest from the NSS
* NSS criticises lack of transparency over non-stun slaughter <[link removed]>
The Food Standards Agency has stopped publishing data on the number of animals being slaughtered without pre-stunning.
* Guidance grants schools leeway to push anti-LGBT religious views <[link removed]>
Faith schools will be able to teach that same-sex relationships and gender reassignment aren't permitted by the religions they promote.
* NSS welcomes intervention at charity accused of promoting extremism <[link removed]>
A regulator has appointed an interim manager who will consider the future viability of a charity accused of promoting Islamist extremism.
* The continued effort to silence Charlie Hebdo is shameful <[link removed]>
It is outrageous to try to force this small magazine to give the 2015 killers what they wanted, says Chris Sloggett.
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