Johor exco member: Caning common in religious schools

Johor Islamic Religious Affairs committee chairman Abdul Mutalip Abd Rahim said caning as a form of discipline is common in religious schools in the state. "Some parents send their children to religious schools to deepen their religious knowledge, while some students were enrolled due to disciplinary problems at home that need to be dealt with by the school," he said. He clarified that the students should not be caned until they were hurt, which would be considered a form of abuse. Abdul Mutalip was commenting on the case of a 11-year-old religious school student who was beaten by an assistant warden and had both his legs amputated due to infection.

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