Switzerland immigration

Switzerland has rejected citizenship status for two Muslim immigrant girls who had refused to swim with boys in the same pool in a coed school. According to the Swiss media, the girls said that their religion does not allow them to swim in the same pool with the boys, so won't be participating in the compulsory swimming lessons.

               

The naturalization application was then rejected for the two girls.

Switzerland is a country that believes that integration into the society is important than the knowledge of history or politics practised in the United States. Any candidate that does not want to fail their application must integrate into the society, and respect local laws and tradition.

While the Swiss constitution guarantees “[f]reedom of religion and conscience” and the right to “choose” and “profess” one’s religious or philosophical views “alone or in community with others,” in recent years the Swiss have sought to promote cultural assimilation among Muslim immigrants via legislative means.

 

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