It’s a Muslim thing – you wouldn’t understand.
Posted on 06/22/2008 6:42:50 PM PDT by forkinsocket
A Muslim asylum seeker lost out on an award for volunteer work after indicating that he would not shake hands with the woman who was to present him with the prize.
Alinoor Ahmed Sheikh, a Somali based in an asylum hostel in Tralee, was to have been honoured for his work raising funds for Amnesty International at a ceremony last Thursday organised by the Africa Centre in Dublin. The event was designed to highlight the positive work done by refugees and asylum seekers in Irish communities.
Five minutes before Benedicta Attoh, a member of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, was due to present the award she was told not to call out Sheikh’s name. “The judges had decided that someone else should get the award,” said Attoh, chairwoman of the Africa Centre’s board.
Attoh did not find out the reason why until she read in Metro Eireann on Friday that his name had been removed because of his refusal to shake hands with women. Sheikh told the newspaper that he had been assured his request not to shake a female presenter’s hand would be accommodated because it was based on his religious beliefs.
His certificate was presented to Therese Elumelu, who was not present, with Sheikh’s name crossed out.
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Nonsense. This man is a Muslim mysogynist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Is that really a Muslim belief — that men are too good to shake the hand of a lowly woman?
If you’re following a “religion” where every innocent opportunity to touch a woman must be shunned, it’s going to be a long, long, long, long life.
If, on the other hand, his religious beliefs dictated that he cut off the head of the infidel woman he would have had no problem with grabbing a handful of hair while he kneeled on her backside and sawed away with a knife.
Yes, this is a Muslim practice & it is mine too. I don’t shake hands with men - has nothing to do with feeling lowly.
If shaking the hand of a strange woman is considered intimate conduct, then maybe Orthodox Jews should get over it as well.
Guess I’m too used to being in a modern work envirnoment.
I’ve never met a man or woman who refused to shake hands when introduced — and if they did it would be an insult.
“Muslim mysogynist.”
redundant.
Poor Monk would have been SOL had he not had his handy wipes available.
Seriously, and I ask this seriously, would a germophobe have had their name stricken off?
And I would have shoved that certificate back in their face if they gave it to me with someone elses name scratched through and mine written over it. Sheesh.
Sheik pigmolester will probably sue to get his prize now.
Where I am from it is normal that some people will not touch the opposite gender, so it’s not a problem. In America, I explain it to them or any man accompanying me explains it to them. So far no one has given indications of being insulted, just surprised. They think of it as “some Middle Eastern custom, I guess”.
Hence why a good number of them seeks an early exit.
>>>I’ve never met a man or woman who refused to shake hands when introduced — and if they did it would be an insult.
I’ve seen it. Orthodox Jews from Postville, IA do not shake hands with the women who work in a store in a nearby town that I go to in the course of my work.
“A Muslim asylum seeker lost out on an award for volunteer work after indicating that he would not shake hands with the woman who was to present him with the prize. “
True what you said about orthodox jews being modest/respectful in that way, according to their faith.
However - the muslim thing - NOT respectful but disdainful and DISrespectful.
“Lost out on a prize” as the article says???
When is the world (including US) going to get it - they have their eye on a MUCH bigger prize and could care less about money, trophies or any of the things the western world fancies. We absolutely must stop judging all others by the way WE are and the way WE think.
“Is that really a Muslim belief — that men are too good to shake the hand of a lowly woman?”
duh. are you serious? yes, and moreover, it’s grounds for killing the woman who even spends time talking with a man to whom she’s not married or related. it’s been done countless times - called an “honor killing”.
It’s a Muslim thing – you wouldn’t understand.
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