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In reply to the discussion: Muslim couple denied Swiss citizenship over no handshake [View all]DFW
(54,330 posts)Plenty of people are allowed to reside in Switzerland for reasons of asylum, or other considerations.
If you apply for Swiss citizenship, you are asking to become Swiss, yourself. You are asking to become one of them. I am frequently in Switzerland, have Swiss friends, and speak three out of the four languages spoken there. I know the place well. A previous poster noted that to become a citizen, you have not only to convince the Federal authorities, but also the local community in which you intend to reside. You MUST interact with them on their terms. There is no other way to live there, and the last thing they want is someone coming to live among them who feels their customs are wrong.
I meet Muslims all the time in Switzerland who are immigrants and citizens. They chose to become Swiss. If they own a Swiss passport, they speak the local dialect of the Kanton they reside in, and do not refuse to speak to local authorities based on their gender. That is not the SWISS way. If a Swiss chooses to apply for citizenship in Egypt, they have to expect to adopt to the local language and culture there.
I was particularly amused about someone above suggesting that the EU get involved. Why not the OAS or ASEAN, or even the UN, or some other organization to which Switzerland does not belong?