Kuala Lampur, Oct. 20 -- Discipline is a means of correction, not humiliation. There is, accordingly, a strongly held view that since caning is humiliation, it is not discipline.

In the view of Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid, a Criminologist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, caning is not discipline; it is an act of violence disguised as education.

It is one view. There are other views - like the view of Mohammad Hashim Kamali, a prominent contemporary Islamic scholar, who has addressed the topic of caning children by emphasising its prohibition when it causes injury, advocating for it only as a last resort and in a moderate, non-punitive way.

Hashim Kamali, as he is affectionately called, was formerly Founding...