One who does not give his hand to women cannot take German citizenship

This is the decision of the City-Wurtemberg Administrative Court in Manheim. It is about a 40-year-old Lebanese, who has been living in Germany since 2002, he has studied medicine in Germany and already works as a specialist doctor at a clinic.

In 2012, he gave his citizenship exam, but in 2015 he refused to give the office's hand that wanted to issue his citizenship certificate.

Marriage promises or fundamental thinking

He claimed he had promised his wife a Muslim with German citizenship and Syrian origin to never give hand to any other woman, but the relevant office refused to take citizenship.

Lebanon went to court and the court argued it refuses to give the hand to a woman “as a result of an fundamentalistic concept of culture and values” and refuses to adapt to the way of life in Germany. The giving of hands to others has <x2 deep roots and forms the basis for coexistence” among people in Germany, the court argued.

The Lebanese doctor claimed that he was already giving no one his hand because it is for the equality of the husband and wife, but the court saw it as a mere saying for tactical reasons.

Pandemia not stands topic

The court also argued that the fact that people are no longer giving hands to each other because of the coronary pandemic cannot be considered, because “due to the long historical tradition of giving hands to others”, judges do not think that hand giving as a ritual will be excluded forever. /dw/