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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 19 July

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

* NSS backs call for council to scrap prayers at the start of meetings <[link removed]>

The NSS has backed a bid to remove prayers from the council chamber in Norfolk.

Eastern Daily Press

* Anti-RSE protest planned outside primary school in Nottingham <[link removed]>

A protest against relationships and sex education lessons is planned outside a Nottingham primary school next Monday.

Nottinghamshire Live

* Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Boarding school run by monastic order ruled by 'hate and fear' <[link removed]>

A former resident of Fort Augustus Abbey School, which was run by the Order of Benedictines in the Highlands, has described being beaten by a priest.

BBC

* Priest 'systematically' abused boys at Catholic college, court told <[link removed]>

A Catholic priest sexually abused two boys "regularly, systematically and horrifically", a jury was told.

BBC

* Private Islamic school that had library book on how to help the Taliban is rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted <[link removed]>

A private Islamic school that had an extremist library book on how to help the Taliban with "Don't make the Jews and the Christians your friends" on page one has been rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted.

Mail Online

* Sajid Javid: Leaders must 'moderate language' to fight extremism <[link removed]>

Home secretary Sajid Javid is to tell public figures they must "moderate their language" as part of a greater effort to tackle extremism.

BBC

* Edinburgh prison bosses launch crackdown on inmates pretending to be Jewish to get better food <[link removed]>

Prison bosses have launched a crackdown on a scam by cons pretending to be Jewish to get better food.

The Scottish Sun

* ‘The current laws around assisted dying are plainly inhumane and unjust’ – Vince Cable <[link removed]>

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable says parliament should act to empower individuals, ensuring that nobody with a rational desire to end their suffering is forced to suffer.

Politics Home

* Court rejects bid to suspend part of Canadian province's religious symbols ban

A court in the Canadian province of Quebec on Thursday rejected a bid to suspend parts of a new provincial law that bans public sector employees from wearing religious symbols to work.

Reuters

* ‘Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan neutralised hardline religious party’ <[link removed]>

Abdullah Yusuf says Pakistan's Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik appears to have been neutralised, and the rule of law and equal rights are the only way forward if Pakistan is to become a prosperous and progressive country.

The Conversation

** Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

* New autism centre opens at Catholic school in Berkshire <[link removed]>

The NMFS campaign has criticised a decision to place a publicly-funded resource centre for pupils with autism within a Catholic school.

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