Muslim man denied German citizenship over handshake – Iqsoft Software Consultants Blog
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A German court ruled a Muslim man should be denied citizenship after he refused to shake the hand of a female immigration official due to religious reasons. The 40-year-old unidentified doctor from Lebanon applied for citizenship in 2012 and then aced the exam with a perfect score, German newspaper Deutsche Welle (DW) reported. But when he rejected a female official’s handshake at his 2015 naturalization ceremony, she withheld his certificate and ultimately denied his application, the paper reported. But the higher court ruled that anyone who refuses to shake hands on gender-specific grounds was violating terms about equality in the German constitution. The handshake could be considered a “fundamentalist conception of culture and values” and this could be interpreted as a rejection of “integration into German living conditions,” the Independent reported.
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