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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 10 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

* £1m charity cash for group linked to Iran <[link removed]>

A group called the Islamic Human Rights Commission has received more than £1m in charity cash despite being run by self-declared Islamist revolutionaries closely aligned to Iran who say that the West is "the enemy" and Britain a "Stasi state".

The Telegraph

* ‘The Times view on the Islamic Human Rights Commission: Organised hypocrisy’ <[link removed]>

This editorial says a human rights group benefiting from charity laws ignores repression in Iran.

The Times (£)

* Integrated schools in NI 'humbled' by Nobel Peace Prize nomination <[link removed]>

A group of schools in Northern Ireland has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for working to educate children from different religious backgrounds together.

Tes

* Church of Ireland leader calls on Christians to work to prevent NI abortion reform

The leader of the Church of Ireland has said it is a "duty" of Christians to approach their representatives in an attempt to stop Northern Ireland's abortion laws from being liberalised.

Belfast Telegraph

* Germany shooting: Gunman kills two after attacking synagogue <[link removed]>

A gunman has killed two people in eastern Germany after attempting to enter a synagogue where dozens were observing a Jewish holiday. Prosecutors say there are indications of a possible right-wing extremist motive.

BBC

* Macron vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against Islamist terror after Paris knife attack <[link removed]>

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist terror on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalised colleague.

The Times of Israel

* Irish education minister says faith ethos can’t hinder sex ed classes <[link removed]>

Religious ethos cannot be allowed to interfere with the teaching of Relationships and Sexuality Education in schools, Ireland's education minister Joe McHugh has said.

The Irish Catholic

* China destroys dozens of Uighur cemeteries in drive to 'eradicate' cultural history of Muslims <[link removed]>

Even in death there is no respite for the Uighurs, one of the world's most persecuted minorities, according to a new investigation that has revealed China is destroying burial grounds where generations of families have been interred.

The Telegraph

* Judge overturns ban on gay ‘conversion therapy’ in Florida city <[link removed]>

A US federal judge has overturned a ban on conversion therapy in the Florida city of Tampa, saying the health care regulation is the prerogative of the state, not the city.

Newsweek

** Latest from the NSS

* Regulator can’t reject ‘controversial’ religious charities, says CEO <[link removed]>

The NSS has again called for legal reform after a regulator said it couldn't refuse to register 'controversial' religious charities.

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