Double Standards for Muslim Schools... or just making mountains out of Molehills?

The Daily Mail reported Double standards row as Ed Balls refuses to ban smacking at mosque schools to avoid 'upsetting Muslim sensitivities

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243871/Double-standards-row-Ed-Balls-refuses-ban-smacking-mosque-schools-avoid-upsetting-Muslim-sensitivities.html#ixzz0cz5F2Bco

The ban in question affects all schools where pupils attend less than 12.5 hours a week, thus including Christian Sunday schools, and Jewish Hebrew schools. I think it's interesting the the crux of this debate has centered around Muslim madrashas, rather than being about the general welfare of students in general.


Personally, I don't think any school ought to be allowed to beat children... or physically punish children in any way. I feel the protection of children ought to be the highest concern, not protecting "sensitivities".  I find it difficult to believe that corporal punishment is such a fundamental part of any religion that banning it would create real problems. But then again, I don't know much.