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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 19 November
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
* Irvine Welsh: Scotland's hate crime bill is open to abuse <[link removed]>
The Edinburgh author Irvine Welsh has said he believes the Scottish government's contentious hate crime bill is open to being abused.
BBC
* Independent faith school set to close after charity watchdog launches second investigation <[link removed]>
The Charity Commission is investigating an educational charity in Luton for the second time after it allegedly breached conditions imposed by the Department for Education.
Luton Today
* Christian bookshop fined for refusing to close during lockdown <[link removed]>
The Mustard Seed Bookshop in Gedling, Nottingham, remained open after the lockdown came into force, resulting in the arrest of two men over the weekend.
Christian Today
* Report suggests there is a 'mental health crisis' among young British Muslims <[link removed]>
One of the report's authors says that family pressures may lead to some British Muslims leading "double lives", where they feel compelled to hide things such as relationships, their sexualities or their ways of life from their families.
Telegraph & Argus
* ‘The terrible history of Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic Section 28’ <[link removed]>
The clause – an amendment to the Local Government Act 1988 – banned local authorities and schools from promoting homosexuality and was brought forward by Thatcher's government.
Pink News
* Iran says “insult to a prophet” encourages violence <[link removed]>
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that French President Emmanuel Macron is encouraging violence by defending cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
The Washington Newsday
* French children could get ID numbers to keep them from 'the clutches of Islamists' <[link removed]>
Emmanuel Macron claims children from conservative Muslim families are being taken out of school and are at risk of radicalisation.
The Telegraph
* ‘The abortion protests in Poland are starting to feel like a revolution’ <[link removed]>
Since October 22nd, hundreds of thousands across Poland have been protesting—in five hundred and eighty cities and towns, by one organiser's count.
The New Yorker
* ‘Why women make way less than men do in more religious places’ <[link removed]>
New research finds that the wage gap is 8 percentage points wider in the five most religious states than in the five most secular, with women making 18% less than men in the least religious states and 26% less in the most religious.
Live Science
* A firebrand cleric’s return boosts Islamist politics <[link removed]>
The recurring puzzle as to whether Indonesia's most divisive Muslim cleric, Habib Rizieq Shihab, leader of vigilante group Islam Defenders Front (FPI), would return to the country was solved on Tuesday last week when he finally set foot at home from Saudi Arabia.
The Interpreter
** The latest from the NSS and the No More Faith Schools campaign
* NSS urges Foreign Office to take up case of anti-veiling protester <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged the government to take up the case of an Iranian activist who faces a long jail term for protesting against mandatory veiling.
* Government asks public whether faith schools are “good for society” <[link removed]>
The government is asking whether faith schools are "good for society" as it reviews its engagement with faith organisations in England.
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