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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 1 October
In the Media <[link removed]>, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.
** Secularism in the media
* New Christian secondary school for 600 pupils could be built in Cambridgeshire <[link removed]>
A new Christian secondary school for 600 students could be built in the Cambridgeshire village of Soham, despite the local county council opposing it in favour of "expanding existing schools".
Ely Standard
* Muslim school that couldn’t prove banned head was kept from classroom criticised by Ofsted <[link removed]>
Ofsted has criticised a Muslim school in Birmingham that failed to prove its head teacher was being kept away from the classroom after she was temporarily banned from teaching. The head was given an interim ban amid concerns that she might promote "views that undermine fundamental British values".
Schools Week
* Anti-abortion activists use graphic adverts targeting pro-choice MP Stella Creasy <[link removed]>
Campaigners protesting Stella Creasy MP's stance on abortion took to her constituency with pictures of her alongside a graphic image of what they claim was an aborted 24-week-old foetus.
The Independent
* ‘Meet the pioneering teacher at centre of LGBT equality storm who was inspired to teach tolerance’ <[link removed]>
Will Hazell talks to Andrew Moffat, whose 'No Outsiders' lessons were the subject of a vicious backlash from mainly Muslim protesters.
iNews
* Gay men given electric shocks 'to cure homosexuality' at Queen’s University Belfast in 1960s <[link removed]>
A feature on people who underwent electrical aversion therapy at Queen's University Belfast in the 1960s.
BBC
* Australian radio host makes eight-minute apology for virgin Mary joke after Christian and Muslim protests
Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands has issued a lengthy on-air apology on radio for a joke he recently made after vociferous protests from Christians and Muslims.
News.com.au
* No plan to require vaccinations at state schools, says No 10 <[link removed]>
Downing Street has pushed back against the health secretary's suggestion that the government could make vaccinations mandatory for state school pupils, saying it was not currently a plan.
The Guardian
* Amnesty calls on Pakistan to release lecturer accused of blasphemy <[link removed]>
Amnesty International has said Pakistan's government must immediately and unconditionally release a university lecturer being held in solitary confinement for blasphemy over some Facebook posts.
Ekklesia
* Founder and sister of Sikh group charged with charity funding offences by terror police <[link removed]>
A brother and sister have been charged by counter-terror police over the alleged misuse of money donated to a Sikh campaign group.
The Independent
* Moroccan journalist jailed for abortion that she says never happened <[link removed]>
A Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison on charges of having an illegal abortion and premarital sex, in a trial observers say was concocted to crack down on criticism of the government.
The Guardian
** Latest from the NSS
* NSS urges lord chancellor to scrap Anglican judges’ service <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged the lord chancellor to scrap the annual Anglican services which mark the start of the legal year.
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