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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 7 January
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 and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* British Islamic charity is investigated after praising assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani <[link removed]>
A British charity is being investigated after it praised assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as a martyr.
Mail Online
* Boys and girls 'unlawfully segregated' at Islamic school, as head says it's what parents of faith want <[link removed]>
An Islamic school in Birmingham is unlawfully segregating boys and girls – with boys given privileges and treated more favourably than girls, according to a critical Ofsted report.
Birmingham Live
* Kent GP Dr Richard Scott faces fresh GMC probe – NSS quoted <[link removed]>
The General Medical Council is reviewing a decision not to investigate a Kent GP accused of raising religion during appointments after the NSS challenged it.
Kent Online
* Charlie Hebdo targets 'new censorship', five years after terror attacks <[link removed]>
Five years ago to the day, the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were the target of a jihadist attack that claimed the lives of 12 people. Today a special issue of Charlie targets a new form of censorship imposed by the "gurus of political correctness".
RFI
* Students in India protest after university attacked by masked assailants <[link removed]>
A fresh wave of protests spread across India's biggest cities on Monday, hours after masked assailants invaded dormitories on an elite university campus in the capital New Delhi and beat up students and faculty.
NPR
* ‘Is India still a democracy?’ <[link removed]>
Kapil Komireddi says Narendra Modi has bullied critics and suffocated the press into endorsing his Hindu nationalist version of modern India.
New Statesman
* US TV star reveals her upset at sons’ circumcision <[link removed]>
Meghan King Edmonds, a former star of the show Real Housewives of Orange County, revealed that she was 'really upset' that she and her husband decided to circumcise their twin sons.
DailyMail.com
* Pagan prisoners not allowed to buy candles and incense used to worship gods <[link removed]>
Inmates at HMP Hull have been 'denied' requests to buy candles and incense, often placed around altars set up in cells to worship pagan gods, for safety reasons.
Daily Record
* ‘Celebrating the removal of Ireland’s blasphemy law’ <[link removed]>
The human rights officer for Atheist Ireland celebrates the recent removal of the country's blasphemy law in this letter.
The Irish Times
* ‘Islamists have opened a terrifying new front in their war with France’ <[link removed]>
Gavin Mortimer says Islamists are seeking to fracture France, turning Muslim against non-Muslim and in the process drawing in the left and the right on opposing sides.
The Spectator
* Italians ‘have less sex when the pope is in town’ <[link removed]>
Italians have less sex when the Pope visits their town because they feel guilty about possible abortions, experts have claimed.
The Times (£)
** Latest from the NSS
* Regulator reconsiders proselytising doctor case after NSS challenge <[link removed]>
A medical regulator will review a decision not to investigate a GP who brings up religion during appointments after an NSS intervention.
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