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In reply to the discussion: Denmark Passes Muslim-Focused Law Requiring Handshakes In Citizenship Ceremonies [View all]Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)54. How is following your religion telling someone else they must follow yours?
The Muslims and also certain Jewish people such as Orthodox women do not make any physical contact with strangers. Should all countries have laws that all their people must follow all the laws of the majority, religious and secular? Now, if I thought what you wrote is the opposite of what you meant, I apologize.
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Denmark Passes Muslim-Focused Law Requiring Handshakes In Citizenship Ceremonies [View all]
appalachiablue
Dec 2018
OP
The only people it'll dissuade are folks who have demonstrated they don't want to integrate
Jake Stern
Dec 2018
#26
How is following your religion telling someone else they must follow yours?
Cold War Spook
Dec 2018
#54
When Muslim countries require all women to veil, aren't they disrespecting them?
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#34
The custom of not shaking hands has to do with their religion-this law violates the right to freedom
iluvtennis
Dec 2018
#2
"The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark (Dansk Folkekirke) is the state religion...
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#9
It seems trivial to us, but it's symbolic to them. They see it as a sign of flexibility
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#70
I think the criticisms are based on law. They're based on what is right and wrong.
onenote
Dec 2018
#52
Just what does it take to be so xenophobic that you sit around analyzing all the
ProudLib72
Dec 2018
#3
The requirement for women to veil themselves in Muslim countries also discourages some women
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#36
Well, you'd be wrong. They have an official state religion. And I don't see how requiring
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#110
This isn't "dressing it up as a gender rights issue." It is fundamentally a gender rights issue,
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#112
What is the religious reason to not shake hands with members of the opposite sex?
oberliner
Dec 2018
#10
That's ridiculous! Who needs to shake someone's hand just to gain citizenship? When my mother....
George II
Dec 2018
#11
Which is fine of course, it just means you won't be granted Danish citizenship if u applied. n/t
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#92
No one is victimized, if they don't like it go to some other country, there are 194 other ones.
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#94
But many of these Muslim people come from countries that require women who live in those
pnwmom
Dec 2018
#37
What about people of faith here on DU, do you count them among the "weak minded"?
Marengo
Dec 2018
#96
How about answering with a yes or no? Or is that too intimidating for a courageous lion?
Marengo
Dec 2018
#101
LiberalLovinLug, 100% right, please repost this on every religious thread
StopTheNeoCons
Dec 2018
#40
I would say nationalist movements are taken off and finding fertile ground to sprout in the west
The Liberal Lion
Dec 2018
#44
So that would mean a Muslim who does shake hands (And many DO, no problem) is an equal citizen...
ck4829
Dec 2018
#38
I am stunned by all the intolerance I see on this thread coming from so called liberals and
The Liberal Lion
Dec 2018
#45
"This is about Denmark deciding what kind of people they want to let in their country which is their
onenote
Dec 2018
#50
I'd say every country has a right to decide what kind of citizens they want to let in.
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#60
1st, where in the Quran does it say a hand may not be shaken in a induction ceremony?
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#66
I'd be fine with any screening out of any ultra-orthodox religious types...stay where you are.
EX500rider
Dec 2018
#71
I have at least 10 Muslim friends, and every single one of them shakes hands with others
Polybius
Dec 2018
#57
If I were moving to a middle eastern country, I would understand that it meant I had
Squinch
Dec 2018
#86