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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 5 November
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** Secularism in the media
* Magistrate struck off for ‘prejudice’ against same-sex parents tells court he was the one discriminated against - NSS quoted <[link removed]>
A former family court magistrate who was sacked after he claimed in an adoption case that a child should be placed "with a mother and a father" is taking his case to the Court of Appeal. NSS chief executive Stephen Evans is quoted.
Pink News
* Hate Crime Bill: Concerns raised over vague wording and cost to police <[link removed]>
Serving police officers and legal experts have highlighted concerns with the Scottish Government's embattled Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill.
The National
* Extremist who laughed about Manchester Arena attack jailed after downloading video showing how to build a bomb <[link removed]>
Ataubaq Taj, from Salford, was said to be a supporter of Islamic State.
Manchester Evening News
* Sebastian Kurz and Emmanuel Macron unite to challenge Islamism <[link removed]>
Austria's chancellor has joined President Macron of France in declaring a common European front in a "war on Islamism" after four people were killed in a terror attack in central Vienna.
The Times (£)
* 'A united front against Islamist terror is sorely needed' <[link removed]>
The attack in Vienna may be a sign that the incitement against Western democracies is spreading.
The Telegraph
* 'Nothing. Justifies. Violence. Period.' <[link removed]>
France has refused to restrict its freedom of expression standards, in a way that Indian free speech advocates can only envy, says Mitali Saran.
Deccan Herald
* Three women face jail in Poland for sharing posters of Virgin Mary with an rainbow halo <[link removed]>
Human rights groups are calling on Poland to drop charges against three women who face jail for sharing posters of the Virgin Mary with a rainbow-coloured halo.
Pink News
* Italy's lower house of parliament approves bill protecting LGBT+ community <[link removed]>
Italy's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed an anti-discrimination bill that makes violence against women and LGBT+ people a hate crime, with those found guilty of such attacks risking longer prison terms.
Reuters
* 'What’s in Malta's Equality Bill?' <[link removed]>
In the world of Malta's Christian organisations and faith schools, a cultural war is being waged against the Equality Bill, a new set of rules that places a renewed onus on employers to curb discriminatory practices.
Malta Today
* Conservative US Supreme Court justices lean toward Catholic agency in LGBT dispute <[link removed]>
Conservative US Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to religious rights claims against Philadelphia brought by a Catholic Church-affiliated agency after the city refused to use the group in its foster care program because it would not accept same-sex couples as prospective foster parents.
Reuters
** The latest from the NSS
* The onus should be on theocrats, not liberal democracies, to change <[link removed]>
Liberal equivocation on whether to stand up to jihadist murder and Islamist intimidation is morally wrong, misguided and counter-productive, says Chris Sloggett.
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