If these children are so religious, why are they attending a secular, public school? And why is it incumbent on the public school to bend to Islam and change its tradition and mores to accommodate Islamic misogyny?
Wherever Islamic law and Western law conflict, it is Western law and mores that must give way.
Why? And why did this school cave? Why sanction the most misogynist and extreme ideology on the face of the earth (sharia)?
“Swiss school lambasted for backing Muslim teens who refuse to shake hands with female teachers,” RT, April 5, 2016:
A school in Switzerland says its Muslim pupils will no longer have to shake hands with female teachers following a controversial ruling. Two male Muslim students said they did not want to shake hands with women as it was against their religion.
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The school in the northern Swiss municipality of Therwil, which is in the canton of Basel, took the decision after two male pupils, aged 14 and 15, complained that they were being made to shake hands with their teachers, including female members of staff, which is part of Swiss custom. The Muslim students said this went against their religious beliefs.
The boys argued that Islam does not permit any physical contact between members of the opposite sex, unless it is with family members.
The decision was not met well across much of Switzerland, with Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga weighing into the debate, saying that “shaking hands is part of our culture,” according to AFP.
Meanwhile, Christoph Eymann, who heads the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education, agreed with Sommaruga, insisting: “We cannot tolerate that women in the public service are treated differently from men.”
The local Therwil council also did not come out in support of the school’s decision; however, the council said it “will not intervene as [it] is the responsibility of the school to set the rules,” spokeswoman Monika Wyss told AFP in a statement.
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“The same rules should apply to all students,” argued union president Beat Zemp, as cited by Swiss Info. He also mentioned that the wrong signal was being sent out to students, as after they leave the school environment they will have to shake hands with peers and colleagues of both sexes anyway.
However, Muslim groups in Switzerland stated that the reaction was overblown, adding that there was a “clear prohibition of this contact form [handshakes] between sexes.”
“One would think that the continued existence of Switzerland’s core values was at stake, when this particular case in fact involves just two high school students who have said they wish to greet their teacher in a different way than with a handshake,” the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland said in a statement, according to AFP.
In November, the Swiss canton of Ticino announced women wearing the burqa or niqab would be faced with a fine of up to $9,790, after the government made it illegal to wear the veils in public. Almost two-thirds of the region’s voters supported the ban in a 2013 referendum.
The law makes no exceptions for tourists. People visiting Ticino will be informed at airports and by customs officials at the Italian border that it is unlawful in the canton to hide their face. Forty-thousand people visited Ticino from the Middle East in 2014.
The announcement by the Ticino authorities prompted an Algerian businessman to say he would pay all of the fines for Muslim women who would be penalized under the legislation.
“I am going to pay all the penalties in order to neutralize the law,” French-born Algerian internet entrepreneur Rachid Nekkaz was cited as saying by the country’s ATS news agency in December.
The businessman previously challenged the ban on burqas in France, where they were outlawed in 2010. He established a fund of several million dollars, which he says has been used to pay over 1,000 fines issued by the French authorities.
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When even wealthy, well-educated Jews with money in Swiss banks came to the border in the 1940’s, the Swiss refused them entry. They were happy to steal the money. And, they made it nearly impossible for any survivor to get a cent out of the bank.
I hope they are overwhelmed by these invaders who wish to transform Switzerland into a Sharia run land. They deserve it.
Swiss neutrality was a well crafted myth. The trains carrying Jews to the camps crossed Switzerland, they just did it in the night with no paperwork. There are numerous eyewitness accounts of this. The Swiss also served as bankers for the Nazis and were quite content to bank the wealth the Nazis stole from the Jews, all the way down to the fillings from their teeth.
And speaking of WWII…
When Switzerland gives in then Europe is gone. The very idea Switzerland has muzzrats is quite scary. The muzzrats go to school in Switzerland because in their muzzrat country there are no good schools like in Switzerland.
By and large, Islam has no schools, only indoctrination into the Koranic cult.
Where have you been. There are small villages in switzerland, which is now the rape capital of EU, where the muzrats have taken over . There have been instances of women fleeing their own homes and leaving their property, after being repeadly burglurized and raped
I doubt if it’s Switzerland you are talking about. Perhaps you were thinking of Sweden?
Yes , your correct its sweden
Islam is not part of any culture, deport every one of them.
But even the Bloods Cripps and MS-13 have a culture, of a sort.
True, they are more civilized than islam.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Swiss said, that’s all right, enjoy your trip to a muslim country when you leave Sweden, since you don’t want to follow the rules here. Bye bye now.
Just kill them.
The Swiss are Swiss – and Swedes are Swedes. Two different countries. Two different nationalities. The Swiss are by far the more level-headed – generally.
Typical intolerant Islamic behaviour. I bet pork has been taken off the school lunch menu, just to ‘accommodate’ these feral creatures.
I also don’t like it when people think that it’s their human right to shake my hand. Some people crush hands in a handshake or have dirty hands.
& I also would like to have a 20 year old younger wife, but do I become a Muhammadist? No, because I know that God, an afterlife, angels, souls probably don’t exist & because I can judge right from wrong & I know that Muhammad’s anti Afro mythology & permanent commands to crucify, ambush, extort, torture & murder critics of Muhammadism is wrong.
That’s why Muhammadism must be condemned & global identity rule. Efficient politics is global not national. We should unite to protect human rights, ecology & global identity.
Islam, mohammadism is the same. It is a devilish, murderous ideology that must be defeated. They don´t accept any humanitarian acts so they must be fought by all means so that the modern democratic world could be saved
You can keep your globalist BS! Peter Sutherland, is that you?
He’s been spouting this nonsense for a while now and includes spam posts.
Muslims have no problem raping non muslim women, but cannot shake hands with them? Muslims are lying fools.
And rapists in Iran are not even jailed – but the poor victims are stoned to death. This is Islam. Where there are Muslims there is hate, violence and death. Muslims can’t even get along with each other. We have Muslims protesting in Toronto waving their terrorist Hamas and Hezbollah flags calling for the death of our Jewish citizens.
There is a long overdue backlash to islam in the civilized world. Eventually it will happen. It will be bloody.
Yep, mooslims can’t shake hands with infidels but have no problem sticking their dick in every hole front and back of male or female as the qu’ran says it’s OK.
Gawd what a bunch of demented crap
islam is not a race not a religion. Islam is identical with nazism and communism.
everybody should fight the nazis and communists and islam. three identical ideologies.
Former US Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said it was just a lifestyle. I happen to agree.
The European morons are getting their just rewards for allowing an uncontrolled infestation of human cockroaches into their countries. Too bad it will be the people, and not the politicians, who will get the worst of it.
I usually agree with everything you write but no one should be forced into physical contact with someone else regardless of the reason if it makes them uncomfortable.
For safety’s sake it may be a good thing these rapefugees are not required to shake female teachers’ hands since they cannot do so without their prurient urges and animal instincts taking over.
The Muslim almighty attitude is not going to change anytime soon. Unless the Western countries take a stand our way of life, values & ethics will be reduced to a sand pile of 3rd world illiterates. Obama has already put America on that trajectory. The Europeans need to take a stand, get the balls to say enough of this BS is enough. Either adapt or go back to the sand pile.
Yes, they wont shake their hand, but will rape them
When will Europeans stop taking this crap? Your culture is disappearing before your eyes and you’re allowing it to happen.
I’m really surprised and disappointed at the negative response to this. I spend quite a lot of my time with members of the Charedi ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and would never dream of shaking hands with a female from that community. This is their tradition and I respect it. I have no problem with Muslim boys not shaking hands with non-family females, but I do have a problem with them raping them. I really don’t see this as imposing Islam / sharia law on the school unless they start insisting that everyone follows their examples and ceases male / female contact.
As for them attending a public secular school, would you prefer them to be educated at a madrassah (private Muslim school) where the whole curriculum is based on the Qu’ran and where they are not subject to other influences, where they have no exposure to western values?
My sister, my brother (of blessed memory) and I were raised in central Scotland some 40 miles from the nearest Jewish community. We were the only Jewish pupils in the school we attended and the school simply took account of our religious requirements. We kept kosher (and still do) so we were allowed to bring packed lunches when all the other pupils had to eat school dinners. We did not have to bring a hymnbook to morning assembly. We were allowed to leave early for Shabbos, were given time off for all the festivals and we were not required to attend Religious Instruction lessons. We were integrated but no assimilated. And when these privileges were questioned, it was explained that these were required by our religion. No problem.
There should be no problem in making allowance for the religious requirements of others provided this does not cause major disruption or these others insisting that everyone has to follow their code of practice. I can’t and don’t object to the non-handshaking, but I do object to pupils being forced to eat only hallel foods.
In our fight against the creeping domination of Islam we need to get things in proportion and choose our battles carefully. This incident was worth mentioning but not worth getting worked up over. But feel free to disagree.
Yes, with this sort of behaviour they should go back to madrassas and live there locked up without any contact with the kuffar, this behaviour is just unacceptable. If they got radicalized too bad, they can be deported or go straight to jail, the choice is theirs.
Now what would you say about an Orthodox Jewish man who didn’t shake hands with a female, Jewish or otherwise?
They live in ghettos by their own volition, and are not trying to impose the halachah on you, but regarding to Islam yes, surely they want to wage demographic war on the native population and gain political power and then impose the sharia.
I’d say the same f’ing thing and have! Grow up. Let go of you perverted “specialness”.
I can see your ‘specialist’ is ignorance.
Have you always been so delusional? Good grief, man, wake the f*ck up!
If our current immigration plan continues this will be the US in less than 10 years. And our libs are equally as stupid as theirs.
Long before then, maybe before 1/2017.
The USA is in deep trouble with the current appointed BHO moslem administration —this act in Switzerland is an indication of what is ahead for the USA. We either stand and destroy Islam of perish.
Or elect the realist on the subject of Islam, Trump.
Bingo Paul! ‘Realist’ says it all.
289 days.
Oh, Pray, we’re thinking the exact same thought! What a joy it’ll be when he leaves OUR WH!
Unless God forbid Hillary’s elected. I literally cannot bear to think of such a horror.
‘Pray Hard’, indeed! I’m with you!
If these Muslim brats refuse to shake hands with their teachers, expel them & deport them back to their own country.
I would jerk a knot in those little bastards, a bow knot.