Legal loophole permits Muslim schools to continue beating children

This story from the National Secular Society addresses the issue of child abuse in after hours faith schools.

'A report just over a year ago warned that madrassa students had been slapped, punched and had their ears twisted. Irfan Chishti, a former Government adviser on Islamic affairs, said that one madrassa student was “picked up by one leg and spun around” while another pupil said a teacher was “kicking in my head like a football”. In a separate report in 2006, leading British Muslim Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui raised fears that physical abuse in madrassas was widespread.'

Presumably the Koran makes allowance for such treatment and Muslim parents must decide whether their personal interpretation will include such treatment of their children or not, ie, they must make a moral judgment regardless of what their holy book says.