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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 9 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
* Government issues advice on handling school protests against LGBT-inclusive education <[link removed]>
The government has issued advice to local authorities on dealing with protests outside schools over LGBT-inclusive teaching.
BBC
* Boy of seven died after beating from staff member at celebrated Scottish Catholic school, inquiry hears <[link removed]>
A boy of seven at a highly-rated Catholic school died after being given a 'vicious' beating by a member of staff, an inquiry heard yesterday.
Scottish Daily Mail
* Calls for review of rejected ‘buffer zones’ plan outside abortion clinics <[link removed]>
Charities and medical bodies have called on the Home Secretary to bring in buffer zones outside abortion clinics.
ITV News
* ‘The BBC’s paranoia about causing offence has reached a new high’ <[link removed]>
Hardeep Singh says BBC paranoia over giving offence has caused a Sikh contributor to Thought for the Day to quit the slot.
The Spectator
* Anti-abortion activists offer financial support to pregnant students <[link removed]>
Anti-abortion campaigners are offering to help fund pregnant students in Scotland to discourage them from having terminations.
The Times (£)
* Parliament’s chaplain complained about “stench” and security risk of Westminster Tube’s homeless <[link removed]>
The chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons complained to parliamentary authorities about the "ongoing stench" and "unsanitary state" created by rough sleepers in an underground entrance used to access parliament.
New Statesman
* German lorry attack in Limburg seen as 'act of terrorism' <[link removed]>
An attack on motorists in the western town of Limburg is being investigated as terrorism, security sources have told German media.
BBC
* US blacklists dozens of Chinese tech companies and agencies over ‘brutal oppression’ of Uighurs <[link removed]>
The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese companies and government agencies over what it called the "brutal" treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang province.
The Independent
* Iranian women allowed to watch football at stadium for first time in decades <[link removed]>
Iranian women will be able to enter a football stadium on Thursday for the first time in decades, after Fifa threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.
The Guardian
* Junaid Hafeez: Why is Pakistani scholar's blasphemy case receiving scant attention? <[link removed]>
Human rights organizations are demanding the release of a 33-year-old university lecturer who has been in solitary confinement on blasphemy charges in Pakistan since 2014. His family discusses his case.
DW
* ‘As a doctor, vaccination column shook me to my core’ <[link removed]>
Avi Korman responds to a previous column on vaccinations in Jewish News, saying it distorted the facts. He adds that recognised doctors would strongly and firmly advise people to vaccinate their children.
Jewish News
** Latest from the NSS
* Ritual infant circumcision “morally impermissible”, say experts <[link removed]>
The religious and cultural circumcision of non-consenting boys is "morally impermissible", according to a panel of experts.
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