In a shocking scene, a video clip of a Libyan child being tortured, severely beaten and severely punished by a mosque imam, spread on social media in the past few hours as he attended classes on memorizing the Holy Quran.
In the video clip (which Al-Arabiya.net and Al-Hadath.net refuse to publish due to its cruelty), a bearded sheikh appears abusing the child and beating him brutally, severely, with all his strength, and then all on his body after being bound and stripped, using a plastic tube, indifferent to his pleas and cries. From the severity of the pain, inside a classroom in a mosque during a lesson to teach the Holy Quran.
This scene sparked outrage and condemnation from social media activists, calling for the need to arrest the teacher and the need to change the methods used in teaching and teaching the Noble Quran to students, and the use of modern methods that they are free from violence.
An activist named “Umm Waseem” wrote a post calling on the authorities to locate the mosque where the incident occurred and arrest the imam to protect the rest of the children, and she believed that resorting to punishing the students beatings would drive them away from study and turn them into a violent generation.
While an activist called Bodour saw that the punishment of lazy students shouldn’t be with all this malice, hate and intimidation, but with motivation, encouragement, follow-up and even rewards, because children are not equal in their ability to absorb and memorize .
For his part, the activist Moaz al-Tarhouni recalled the first years of his studies in a post, and said that he was beaten more than once, and that they were scenes that had not been erased from his memory until today , and that he could not get over them or forget them, and that he hated and hated all the teachers who joined him.
On the other hand, activist Sherif Twaity believes that using this method to discipline children and students who are not diligent helps correct their behavior, teaches them discipline and motivates them to be more diligent and interested in their studies.
Libyan law prohibits principals, teachers and other school staff from using beatings and violence in all its forms against pupils and students, and anyone who violates this is subject to legal liability.
