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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 21 October
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
* PM should consider disestablishment if bishops' intervention continues, says MP <[link removed]>
Boris Johnson should move to disestablish the Church of England if controversy over its clergy's political interventions continues, a leading Conservative MP has said.
The Times (£)
* Churches to close in Wales in new Covid 'firebreak' <[link removed]>
The Archbishop of Cardiff has expressed his "disappointment" that churches in Wales will have to close for three weekends under the coronavirus "circuit break" lockdown.
The Tablet
* Beheaded teacher to get France's highest honour, says minister <[link removed]>
Samuel Paty, the 47-year old history teacher beheaded last week by a suspected Islamist, will be posthumously given France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur, the education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has said.
The Guardian
* 'Samuel Paty and the world’s forgotten blasphemy laws' <[link removed]>
It is impossible to separate the killing of Samuel Paty with the Islamic blasphemy laws that are in place around the world, says Kunwar Khuldune Shahid.
The Spectator
* 'The Times view on the murder of Samuel Paty' <[link removed]>
France deserves unqualified support in confronting Islamist terrorism.
The Times (£)
* Two Muslim women stabbed under the Eiffel Tower <[link removed]>
Two Muslim women were 'stabbed repeatedly' under the Eiffel Tower amid rising tensions in Paris after the beheading of a teacher last week.
Mail Online
* Ireland: Archbishops protest over suspension of public worship <[link removed]>
Ireland's four Catholic archbishops have jointly written to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin requesting a "constructive discussion" over the suspension of public worship under new restrictions aimed at curbing the rise in Covid-19 cases.
The Tablet
* Polish gym declares itself a church to avoid coronavirus restrictions <[link removed]>
The move comes after Poland shuttered most gyms and pools in an effort to curb a recent surge in COVID-19 infections. Church services are still allowed.
New York Post
* Iranian woman arrested for 'cycling without hijab' <[link removed]>
A young woman has been arrested in central Iran for "insulting the Islamic hijab", state media said on Tuesday, after a video appeared to show her cycling without a veil.
The Guardian
* 'Pakistani Shias live in terror as sectarian violence increases' <[link removed]>
The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call 'heretics'.
The Guardian
** The latest from the NSS
* Brutally murdered for doing his job <[link removed]>
The beheading of Samuel Paty, a teacher in France who showed Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his students, was an appalling attack on critical enquiry.
* The Church of England’s culture of entitlement has to end <[link removed]>
The furore over John Sentamu not being handed a life peerage reveals an ugly culture of entitlement that has not served church or state well, argues Richard Scorer.
** Online Bradlaugh Lecture 2020
* Geoffrey Robertson to argue for disestablishment in NSS lecture <[link removed]>
Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson will make the case for disestablishing the C of E in the NSS's 2020 Bradlaugh Lecture.
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