Muslims who refuse to shake hands when greeting with someone are not given Swiss passports

A Muslim couple with residence in Lausanne, Switzerland, who had refused to hold hands during naturalisation talks, will definitely not be equipped with Swiss passports. Two complaints against this decision have been dropped, the Swiss agency SDA reports, records Albinfo.ch.

A few weeks ago, the town of Lausanne was announced by the tribunal that the complaint had been withdrawn, the municipal adviser from the FDP, Pierre-Antoine Hildbrand, said on Tuesday. In this case, the decision is defined.

The Muslim couple applied for Swiss citizenship last year. However, during conversations with the naturalisation commission, he did not want to shake hands with members of the opposite sex, writes “Blic”. Where the couple come from, they are not known.

That was one reason why the city decided since August 2018 that the couple failed to meet the requirements for naturalization. According to municipal leadership, the attitude of two persons has violated respect for constitutional equality.

The rejection of hand - shaking at Therwil BL in the spring of 2016 was the theme of denatite in various media. At that world, at local high school, the school administration had temporarily separated two Muslim students for the regular handshake required at school. Both had refused to greet their teacher with handshakes for religious reasons.