Muslim boys at Sydney public school allowed to refuse to shake hands with women

There is a public school in Sydney that Muslim students can refuse to shake hands with women even at an awards ceremony.

Muslim students at Sydney public school the Hurstville Boys Campus of Georges River College (pictured) can refuse to shake hands with women, even at an awards ceremony.

DailymailUK reports that the Hurstville Boys Campus of Georges River College introduced this controversial policy to allow Muslim boys to instead put their hand on the heart as a greeting. This is picked from the Muslim teaching of hadith that states: 'It is better to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle than to touch the hand of a woman who is not permissible to you.'