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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 8 December
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 <[link removed]> and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts <[link removed]> on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Labour shadow minister Janet Daby resigns after saying registrars have right to object to gay marriage <[link removed]>
Janet Daby suggested registrars who have a religious objections to same-sex marriage should be protected from losing their jobs if they refuse to certify the partnership.
Evening Standard
* Synagogue attendance requirement back for new Jewish school pupils <[link removed]>
Rabbis and teachers are considering a return to the pre-pandemic practice of verifying synagogue attendance to get a pupil's Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) to enable them to attend Jewish schools.
Jewish News
* Missing British teen Nasra Abukar found in camp for Isis brides <[link removed]>
A teenage girl who was the subject of a national missing persons appeal has been found six years later in a detention camp in Syria for jihadi brides.
The Times (£)
* Ex-judge Sir Peter Gross to head human rights law review <[link removed]>
Former Court of Appeal judge Sir Peter Gross has been appointed to lead an independent review of the Human Rights Act.
BBC
* ‘Mandated “respect” for others’ opinions hurts free speech’ <[link removed]>
A polite but deadly serious Cambridge university row over the issue shows the need for 'tolerance' instead, says Camilla Cavendish.
Financial Times (£)
* US: Kentucky religious school defies Covid mandate, court ruling by continuing in-person class <[link removed]>
A Kentucky religious school has defied state order to close in-person learning amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, despite a recent court ruling affirming the mandate.
NBC News
* Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism <[link removed]>
Twitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque and his work on India's shrinking democratic space.
The Guardian
* India: Police in Uttar Pradesh arrest 10 men under new anti-conversion law <[link removed]>
Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the "Love Jihad" law, officials said on Monday.
Reuters
* Christchurch shooting: security agencies were focused on Islamist terror, inquiry finds <[link removed]>
New Zealand's security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of the 2019 Christchurch shooting, in which a gunman shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry into the country's worst peacetime massacre has found.
The Guardian
* ‘Going undercover in the schools that chain boys’ <[link removed]>
In recent years, videos of children being beaten in Sudan's Islamic schools have been widely shared on social media, and there have been stories in local media of sheikhs (religious teachers) accused of rape.
BBC
** New NSS podcast
* Ep 40: Rachel Laser, the Americanisation of the religious right <[link removed]>
Emma Park speaks to Rachel Laser, to discuss the state of US secularism in the aftermath of their 2020 election, and the American Christian rights' support for similar movements around the world.
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