Posted on 12/20/2018 2:25:33 PM PST by Silentgypsy
COPENHAGEN — Denmark will require anyone who takes Danish citizenship to shake hands at the naturalization ceremony, under a law passed on Thursday, which lawmakers say is aimed at Muslims who refuse on religious grounds to touch members of the opposite sex.
The law has prompted strong reactions from some of the mayors who must conduct such ceremonies, and who are upset that they will become the faces and fists of a policy they call awkward, “purely symbolic” and irrelevant to an applicant’s qualifications. They say the Danish Parliament, which approved the measure, has artificially elevated a social custom to a national value.
But Denmark is not alone. Authorities in Switzerland and France have recently cited “lack of assimilation” in rejection of citizenship to foreigners who refuse to shake hands with officials.
“If you arrive in Denmark, where it’s custom to shake hands when you greet, if you don’t do it it’s disrespectful,” said Martin Henriksen, a lawmaker who has been critical of Islam and is the right-wing Danish People’s Party’s spokesman on immigration. “If one can’t do something that simple and straightforward, there’s no reason to become a Danish citizen.”
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“You can make me shake your hand, but you can’t make me wash my hands before. I hear nothing of that requirement!”
If someone refuses to engage in one of the simplest civilities in the Western world, a mere greeting at that, THEY DO NOT BELONG! Send them back to where they came from.
I’d require them to draw a cartoon of Mohammed eating a slice of bacon.
Easier just hand them a bacon sandwich
Another European pu$$* response. It’s clear to me Europeans have no testes.
islam forbids them befriending an infidel.
That’s their problem.
Exactly!
Lol!
No wonder so many of our ancestors got out of there centuries ago.
Pitiful.——— Denmark
Sounds like it’s being sold out to the islemonaxi invaders just like u k, France, Belgium, Germany
Why not require a BACON breakfast buffet..?
That will work, too.
I have two Muslim households on my street. A westernized single woman living next door to a Muslim couple- at least we think it’s a couple, we have only seen what must be the wife twice as he sneaks her into their car.
Anyway the single woman introduced herself to Mr Muslim when he moved in, and he wouldn’t shake her hand or acknowledge her. She knows it’s because of Islam and she now despises him.
They’ll offer their left hand.
Lol!
Which is the one they use for...never mind.
They do not shake hands because the use their fingers to wipe themselves after defecating. even when introduced to toilet paper, they just use the paper to wipe their hands cleaner.
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