Muslim Ban Over Handshake. Whaddayareckon Liberals?

[rainbow]

Failure to adopt a host country's culture is an excellent reason to deport someone.

Quite so.

[Forty Two]

In this instance, I think I side with the Musselmen. There doesn't seem to be a valid legal basis for deportation because the kid doesn't want to shake hands. If it's a problem for the school, then the kid can go to another school.

[Svartalf]

any excuse to get rid of them invaders.

[Tyrannical]

In this instance, I think I side with the Musselmen. There doesn't seem to be a valid legal basis for deportation because the kid doesn't want to shake hands. If it's a problem for the school, then the kid can go to another school.

Don't ask why you should kick them out. Ask why you ever let them immigrate in the first place.

[rachelbean]

Unless it is illegal to be muslim, or a muslim who follows these particular rules in Switzerland, then I don't see how it is a basis for deportation. If a born citizen of Switzerland would have the option of converting to Islam and adopting the same rules whilst staying inside the law then the decision is not valid.

I agree that people who are immigrating should need to integrate, but that is in respect to the laws and traditions, not personal preferences. Sounds like the schools issue to deal with.

[Tyrannical]

I bet if they asked the kids Iman father his opinion on women, you no deporters would change their mind.....

[Pappa]

In this instance, I think I side with the Musselmen. There doesn't seem to be a valid legal basis for deportation because the kid doesn't want to shake hands. If it's a problem for the school, then the kid can go to another school.

Same here. I don't think it's relevant that they're Muslim. If someone simply refused to shake hands with women for personal reasons, what would be different?

[Tyrannical]

Failure to adopt a host country's culture is an excellent reason to deport someone.

Hmmph, anthropormophism. Imagining human civilized traits to those that had no concept of it.

[tattuchu]

What a peculiar custom, this shaking of the teachers' hands. Seems overly familiar. But, I dunno, I think I like it. Wondering...what is the desired intent? Is it a show of respect or a display of friendship? Or maybe a little of both?

Anyway, as to whether the family should be deported, that seems an extreme overreaction despite the unpleasantness to one's sensibilities the boys' refusal to shake their teachers' hands engenders.
Hypothetical: What if a student were incapable of shaking hands because of a physical deformity or impairment Of course this case is different, I suppose, because the boys are perfectly cable of shaking hands but simply unwilling.

[NineBerry]

Hmmph, anthropormophism. Imagining human civilized traits to those that had no concept of it.

[Feck]

Really ? that is the reason given .. Because THAT is what is wrong with islam ? seems like a shit excuse for racism to me And i doubt you can find a more vociferous opponent of Pisslam than I .

[NineBerry]

A spokesman for the Basel-Country canton, where Therwil is located, said naturalisation proceedings had been put on hold.

But he said such suspensions were common in citizenship procedures.

The migration office in Basel is seeking more information about the circumstances under which the father’s asylum claim was accepted, according to the AFP news agency.

So, the halting of the citizenship process might be completely unrelated to the handshaking issue.

[NineBerry]

Related:

A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female reporter on grounds that it violated his Muslim faith, announced on Wednesday that he was quitting politics.

http://www.thelocal.se/20160420/swedish ... mens-hands

[Exi5tentialist]

Fuck 'em, I'm over stupid fucking muslims. They want to move to the west, they take the whole package and they leave their nasty misogyny behind, or GTFO...

And similarly, the west wants to move to muslim countries... Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria... we take the whole package and leave our nasty islamophobic propaganda behind or GTFO.

But the west can't do that. It always has to bomb the place to bits because muslims because islamic terrorism because muslim misogyny because who the fuck cares? They're foreigners and this is the west. Double standards reign.

So as you say, fuck 'em... it's the western, islamophobic, imperialist way

[Hermit]

Failure to adopt a host country's culture is an excellent reason to deport someone.

Hmmph, anthropormophism. Imagining human civilized traits to those that had no concept of it.

It does not take any imagination, nor is it a case of anthropomorphism, to recognise human civilised traits such as language, religion, legends, art ant tool making among Aboriginal communities that precede white invasion by tens of thousands of years. The evidence is palpable and irrefutable.