In an astonishing act a Muslim girl rejected to shake hands with the German president which become a controversial issue of social media.
The German president Joachim Gauck was visiting the refugee school and was greeted warmly by the students at the school. He greeted the student by shaking hands with them but after reaching near a Muslim girl who was wearing scarf she pressed her hands to her chest as a welcome sign instead of shaking hands.
This act by the girl become controversial and some started to claim that Muslims don’t integrate with western culture and want to impose their culture. While others claimed that it was her right to welcome the president the way she deemed more proper, and criticizing her for not shaking hands is in itself ‘imposing culture’ on her.
In Islamic culture people shake hands with only their own gender and are not allowed to shake hands with opposite gender unless they are from their family members.