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Outrage after Muslims ‘exempt from shaking female teachers' hands’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Male Muslim students at a school in northern Switzerland...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... will no longer have to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that was on Monday causing an uproar in the country. A school in the northern municipality of Therwil, in the canton of Basel, reached the controversial decision after two male students, aged 14 and 15, complained that the Swiss custom of shaking hands with the teacher is counter to their religious beliefs if the teacher is a woman. Swiss legal expert to rule on Muslim pupils' handshake exemption [AlAhram] A Swiss legal expert will decide on the validity of a controversial ruling that allows male Muslim students to avoid shaking hands with female teachers for religious reasons, an official said Tuesday. Switzerland's population of eight million people includes an estimated 350,000 Muslims. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-06 |
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