A Muslim man was denied citizenship in Germany after refusing to shake hands with the official in charge of granting him citizenship, who happened to be a woman.

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[–]SaidOverRed 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Get them out of Europe. All of them

[–]Happy_face_doomer 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Based man

[–]Nemacolin 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Germany is a country for Germans. France is for Frenchmen. Those societies prefer people act and live in certain ways.

Well, you get that sort of thing in old-world countries. They have a cultural identity. Germany promotes its own language, ethnic dress, way of dancing, its own culture. New-world countries are better. They pursue their own happiness in a thousand different ways. Worship however you like, or not at all. Promote Pig Latin in the schools. Just do not bother anyone else too much.

The Old World is a failed attempt at civilization.

[–]Chipit[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

This is Donald Rumsfeld's discredited "Old Europe" rhetoric. Good job, trying to revive neocon ideas that led to the death of millions.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Heavens no. I am condemning the ethnically-pure states of the Old World.

[–]Chipit[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Do the same for the ethnically-pure states of Africa, South America, or Asia.

I'll wait.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are no ethnically-pure nations in South America. (My old stomping ground.) Africa and Asia are in the Old World.

[–]Tarrock 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds like the woman was being islamophobic.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mm

[–]Richard_Parker 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

No person not of exclusive European descent should ever be allowed citizenship of any European nation, especially sacred Germany. I really do fret that Germany is too far gone. They take the Allied propaganda, war guilt too far. Taking things too far seems to be part of their national character.

[–]Minedwe 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Germany has been the most prosperous and advanced nation on the planet many times throughout history. Unfortunately it seems that a certain group has made it their mission to apply a Newtonian opposing reaction to this and destroy them.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Germany has only been a country since 1871.

Short idea of history.

[–]Minedwe 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

A unified country yes, but Germans as an ethnic group didn't just pop into existence. Prussia, Saxony, etc. in the north and Austria, Bavaria, Baden, Wurttemberg, etc. in the South have long been influential and prosperous states; Prussia in particular.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The Prussian empire is a completely different entity.

Germans as an ethnic group were defined by shared language, not by shared national feeling or culture until recently.

Many speakers of slavic or romance languages can understand each other but they don't see that as a shared ethnicity or national identity and neither did German speakers in the past.

Indeed there are still places like Romania where around half the population are called German due to past language differences but still see themselves are 100% Romanian.

[–]Minedwe 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is 100% semantics. When I say "Germany", you know full well what region and group of past and present nations I speak of.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Sounds fake

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Fake AF.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Know this... this is cross marketing in perception management. They are cross marketing two different perception management narratives in one "story".

Can you figure out what they are?

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Also, no names and no author listed.

[–]Dial-up-tone 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If his religion got in the way of a formality then just imagine what prejudices he will be bringing to work.

[–]Intuit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sexual emergencies, for one.

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Want citizenship in a country? Obey the country's customs.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No u

[–]soyboy77 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ffs just play the game. A handshake for citizenship? What a high price! Jesus, it's not like she demanded to trample his balls or something (even though he sounds like the kind of dipshit who probably deserves that sort of treatment). Also, he's supposedly a doctor... Ever heard of latex gloves? He dun goofed.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mm