Swiss anger at Muslim handshake exemption in Therwil school

[FrodosPet]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35967349?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

5 April 2016

A Swiss secondary school has caused uproar by allowing two Muslim boys not to shake hands with women teachers - a common greeting in Swiss schools.

The boys had told the school in the small, northern town of Therwil it was against their faith to touch a woman outside their family.

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"In our culture and in our way of communication a handshake is normal and sends out respect for the other person, and this has to be brought [home] to the children in school," he told the BBC.

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There was no reference in the Koran justifying a refusal to shake a woman teacher's hand, said the Swiss Federation of Islamic Organisations. Saida Keller-Messahli of the Forum for Progressive Islam urged the Swiss not to give in to extremist demands.

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[katsy]

1. Wimmin folk are dirty doncha know 😂

Shake the teacher's hand or go get home schooled.

Religious exemption laws and nonsense like the above just endorses a misogynistic world view on young boys. It encourages young men to consider women as inferiors whereby common courtesies do not apply.

[snagglepuss]

2. Privileging faith based sexism is contemptible.

[AgerolanAmerican]

3. "it was against their faith to touch a woman outside their family"

This kind of misogyny has no place in any civilized country.

However the smaller Islamic Central Council of Switzerland said that a handshake between men and women was prohibited. "After the sex attacks in Cologne (on New Year's Eve), they asked Muslims to keep their distance from women; now they demand they get closer to them," spokesman Qaasim Illi told Swiss media.

There is so much wrong with this I hardly know where to begin.

There was no reference in the Koran justifying a refusal to shake a woman teacher's hand, said the Swiss Federation of Islamic Organisations.

These are people I can live with. The ones who can't distinguish between a handshake and sexual assault, not so much.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Touching in committing a sexual assualt = good

Touching as a form of respect = bad.

That pretty much sums it up right there. Hypocrites!

[csziggy]

4. Why don't they just wear gloves so they never come in contact with "untouchables"

I'm sure they can claim other classes of people and objects they don't want to touch even inadvertently. They should protect themselves from everything!

Personally my choice would be that they wear full body condoms at all times!



OMG - I wrote that last as a joke, never thinking it was a real thing. NSFW! DO NOT google "full body condoms" without being prepared!