Daily media briefing

Proposal to introduce register for children taught at home or in yeshivot sends alarm bells ringing in Stamford Hill.

The Jewish Chronicle

Hadi Matar, 26, faces three new charges almost two years after writer was attacked on stage in Chautauqua, New York.

The Guardian

The party is also likely to appoint an independent advisor on Islamophobia, to show that it is also taking anti-Muslim racism as seriously as that directed at the Jewish community.

Jewish News

Iran summons the German ambassador in Tehran after Germany outlawed Islamic Centre Hamburg and shut down Imam Ali mosque for promoting 'aggressive antisemitism'.

The Times*

India's top court has temporarily blocked an order requiring café and restaurant owners on the route of a Hindu religious procession to display their names, so that pilgrims could shun those owned by Muslims.

The Times*

The Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been found guilty of directing the terrorist group al-Muhajiroun and drumming up cross-border support for the banned organisation online.

The Guardian

A Jewish primary school which has a majority of Muslim pupils has been affected by community tensions, Ofsted has reported.

The Jewish Chronicle

The 66-year-old former chef's daughter said that a decision by doctors to remove life support would be contrary to Islamic faith

The i

An independent pro-Palestine MP who secured a shock general election victory in Leicester was reportedly helped by a radical activist who defended the October 7 attack.

The Jewish Chronicle

The Charity Commission is investigating a London-based Muslim charity after concerns about its trustee elections.

Civil Society

The Charity Commission is investigating an international aid charity over concerns about its links to a "terrorism-promoting" news outlet that has been sanctioned by the government.

Civil Society

Proposed laws that would give terminally ill people on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their lives have been passed by the House of Keys.

BBC

Germany's interior ministry said on Wednesday it has banned the Islamic Centre Hamburg association and its subsidiary organisations, saying it pursues radical Islamist goals.

Reuters

A former adjunct professor on Monday settled a federal religious discrimination lawsuit against a private Minnesota school after she was pushed out for showing a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in class.

Associated Press

New Zealand's wide-ranging independent inquiry into the abuse of children and vulnerable adults in care over the span of five decades released a blistering final report Wednesday that found the country's state agencies and churches failed to prevent, stop or admit the abuse of those they were supposed to look after — even when they knew about it.

Associated Press

Choudary, who was convicted of supporting the so-called Islamic State in 2016, is accused of taking a "caretaker role" in directing Al-Muhajiroun.

Independent

The NHS has overturned the suspension of a Harrow GP who headed the UK branch of recently banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, leaving him free to resume his practice as a GP.

Jewish News

The Archbishop of Canterbury, during a trip to Jamaica last weekend, apologised for the Church of England's links with the transatlantic slave trade.

Church Times*

Legal advice says constitution guarantees right to attend an education without influence of the church, pressure group insists.

The Times*

Multiple allegations of child sexual abuse have been made against the former Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey.

BBC

Gregory Aymond blames three predecessors as memo says he socialized or lived with 48 allegedly abusive clergymen.

The Guardian

Judge pushed enactment of law to display religious code until November in response to parents' suit.

The Guardian

Elizabeth Struhs died after her parents and 12 other members of a Toowoomba sect allegedly withheld the eight-year-old's insulin.

The Guardian

With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preserved.

The Guardian

NSS founder Charles Bradlaugh's struggle for the right of MPs to affirm referenced as campaigners urge the Government to change the wording of the oath taken by MPs.

The National*

Heather Iqbal says Iqbal Mohamed should disown supporters after she faced 'abuse and harassment'

The Guardian

As archbishop of Canterbury visits Jamaica, research reveals trader left money to church's missionary arm.

The Guardian

Lords are set to debate legalising assisted dying after a peer won the right to table legislation to enact the change next week.

The Telegraph*

The Catholic Church already knew by 2021 of claims of sexual abuse against a beloved humanitarian French priest, the late Abbe Pierre, members of an independent commission said Saturday.

France 24

"Scenes at the Republican National Convention—the former president shown bloodied and bowed, and his fans, decked in bandages, imitating his suffering—were reminiscent of Counter-Reformation zeal."

Prospect Magazine*

"Shamsa Sharawe has become infamous within the Somali community across the world for speaking out against female genital mutilation. In a video to illustrate what happened to her vulva when she was aged six she cut off the petals of a rose with a razor blade and then stitched up what was left of the flower."

BBC

Police in northern India have been accused of fuelling an "economic boycott of Muslims" after they asked restaurants to display the names of their owners to "avoid confusion" during a Hindu holy month when thousands of devotees will undertake a pilgrimage on foot.

The Independent*

In June The Sunday Telegraph revealed concerns about imams in Leicester East exerting spiritual pressure over Muslim voters.

The Telegraph*

The Vatican insisted Thursday at the close of a trial in Britain that it was the victim of a yearslong fraud over its investment in a London property.

AP News

Those setting up such camps search for uncircumcised boys to undergo the ritual, known as "mukanda" - often going to schools and forcing their way into classrooms to pick up those they deem the right age.

BBC

New charges filed against Anthony Odiong after eight accusers came forward alleging unwelcome sexual conduct.

The Guardian

Itamar Ben-Gvir, who seeks to disrupt ceasefire talks, makes video at contested holy site in Jerusalem.

The Guardian

Officials and analysts warn of evidence of increased Islamic State and al-Qaida militant activity across Middle East.

The Guardian

The new Labour government's educational plans have implications for parts of the Strictly Orthodox community that go beyond its intention to impose VAT on independent schools.

The Jewish Chronicle

Saudi exiles living in the UK have spoken of threats to their lives and harassment over their support for improvements in human rights in their home country.

The Guardian

The appearance of a loyalist paramilitary flag close to a Catholic primary school and a church in Co Down is being investigated as a sectarian hate crime.

The Irish News*

"Donald Trump's running mate shows how the church can survive as a countercultural movement."

The Times*

Israel's army, for much of its seven decades the country's pre-eminent secular institution, is increasingly coming under the sway of a national religious movement that has made bold moves across Israeli society in recent years.

The Guardian

The Israeli army has updated its service rules for ultra-Orthodox men, after backlash from Charedim over expanded conscription

Jewish Chronicle

"The Muslim Vote campaign has cropped up Down Under."

Spiked

In a world where many elite athletes take up sport almost as soon as they can walk, Fariba, 21, and Yulduz, 24, came late to cycling. They grew up in Faryab, one of the most remote and conservative provinces in Afghanistan, where it was practically unheard of to see women on bicycles.

BBC

A legal bid brought on behalf of Charedi children in Stamford Hill to get London Mayor Sadiq Khan to extend his school meals' subsidy to independent schools has failed.

The Jewish Chronicle

An Iranian television presenter, who was attacked in London by men believed to be acting for the Tehran regime, has moved abroad, saying that he no longer felt safe in the UK.

The Guardian