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According to a court ruling, anyone who refuses to shake hands with women because of fundamentalist values may not be naturalized. Therefore, the administrative court of Baden-Württemberg has rejected the corresponding application of a Lebanese.
The crazy story began before the Corona period, when it was still everyday life to shake hands.
No handshake = no German passport
► The man, now in his 40s, has lived legally in Germany since 2002. He studied medicine here and is now a senior doctor at a clinic. His behavior in the delivery of the naturalization certificate in 2015 was his downfall.
The Lebanese had signed the brochure on compliance with the constitution and against all forms of extremism. He had also achieved the maximum number of points on the naturalization test. But then he refused to shake the responsible employee’s hand at the scheduled delivery!
The District Office later rejected naturalization. The Lebanese moved to the administrative court in Stuttgart. Failed. In the following case, the administrative court of Baden-Württemberg ruled: If an applicant for naturalization refuses to shake hands “for gender-specific reasons that cannot be reconciled with article 3, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Basic Law”, “No classification is given on German living conditions.”
This applies in particular if the refusal to shake hands between the sexes, as in this case, serves to “help the validity of a Salafi belief about the relationship between men and women have a social impact.”
The hearing was already in summer. The ruling (AZ .: 12 S 629/19) was recently announced to those involved. The plaintiff can appeal to the Federal Administrative Court.
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The Lebanese justified his refusal to shake hands with the fact that he had promised his wife not to shake hands with any other woman. She is a Muslim of German nationality and of Syrian origin.
The court put it this way: Lebanese perceive the opposite sex “per se as a threatening threat of sexual temptation or immoral behavior.” The fact that the applicant for naturalization no longer shakes hands with men for reasons of equal treatment does not change the legal assessment. This is tactical behavior under the impression of a legal dispute.
The fact that hands are hardly shaken today due to the corona pandemic does not influence the assessment. “Due to the long historical tradition of handshakes,” the judges did not believe that the handshake would be abolished permanently.
