January 30, 2008
Source: Times of India
Wire Service: AP
A teacher in Muslim-majority Malaysia has been reprimanded for forcing six Hindu schoolboys to shave their moustaches and beards, which they were growing for a religious ritual this month, a news report said on Tuesday.
The Star newspaper quoted state education director Hussain Harun as saying that the teacher in the northern Perak state was enforcing school regulations that require students to be clean shaven.