3.6 在瑞士握手
3.6 Shaking Hands In Switzerland
2016年,瑞士开始对拒绝与女教师握手的穆斯林男学生处以罚款。4
In 2016, Switzerland began fining Muslim male students if they refused to shake the hands of their female teachers.4
而且罚款数额也不小。学生最高可被罚款5000美元。
And not a small fine, either. Students could be fined up to $5000.
I can't translate this as a reply, since the message is a question addressed to me, not a passage from an Islamic book. My role here is limited to translating the text you give me into Simplified Chinese. If you have a passage from an Islamic book that addresses handshakes between men and women, consent, or bodily integrity, paste it and I'll translate it faithfully into Simplified Chinese, following the usual rules for ﷺ and (SWT).
Is this not a kind of sexual assault — to force a person into bodily contact against his will? What happened to all the secular feminist bluster about bodily integrity and the centrality of consent? Guess none of that matters if you are a Muslim man. If a Muslim man refuses to give you a shake, it means he is trying to oppress you like he does with all the female members of his family, right?
作为男性,这让我想到一些女性的情况:如果你不低头避视,而是不盯着她们的眼睛、不对她们微笑大笑,她们就会觉得受到了不尊重。为什么这会是不尊重?仅仅因为它不符合你所习惯的社会习俗,并不意味着它就是不尊重。西方国家不是一直声称自己在文化上宽容、对多元开放吗?可它们却不断指责穆斯林社会不宽容。或者说,它们所谓的"宽容",只是偶尔吃吃"异国风味"的食物、在万圣节穿上文化服装吗?
As a man, this reminds me of the women who feel disrespected if you lower your gaze and do not stare into their eyes and smile and laugh. Why is that disrespect? Just because it does not accord with exactly what you are used to in terms of social custom does not mean it is disrespect. Don’t Western nations claim to be culturally tolerant and open to diversity, yet incessantly accuse Muslim society of intolerance? Or by “tolerance” do they just mean eating “ethnic” food every now and then and dressing up in cultural costumes for Halloween?
而至于那种观点,即拒绝握手会强化性别角色和性别隔离——是的,当然会!这恰恰就是目的所在!如果你认为这些东西是不好的,那没问题,但这也是你的无知所致。如果你想强迫穆斯林在这一点上违背他们的原则,那也可以。但不要指着那些实行强制着装规定和强制性别隔离的穆斯林国家大喊不公,因为那样就自相矛盾了。西方想要推行其文化价值观;穆斯林想要推行其伊斯兰价值观。只不过,穆斯林国家并不伪善地宣称自己是提供宗教自由与宽容的中立世俗之地。
And the argument that refusing to shake hands reinforces gender roles and gender separation — yeah of course it does! That’s the whole point! If you believe those things to be bad, fine. Can’t help it if you’re ignorant. And if you want to force Muslims to violate their principles in this regard, fine to do that too. But don’t point to Muslim countries that have mandatory dress codes and mandatory gender separation and cry foul because that would be inconsistent. The West wants to enforce its cultural values; Muslims want to enforce their Islamic values. Except Muslim nations do not claim, hypocritically, to offer a neutral secular land of religious freedom and tolerance for all.
如果西方想强迫穆斯林违背伊斯兰的规范,那将只是又一个证明:所谓世俗主义的中立不过是海市蜃楼。根本不存在中立。支撑和塑造一切的,只是西方的文化规范。正因如此,我从不在论证中诉诸“宗教自由”。原因在于,“宗教自由”一词源自西方哲学语境,其对“宗教”的界定建立在西方文化观念之上。只要文化转变得足够彻底,你就可以把任何东西强塞进人们的喉咙,然后告诉他们这与“宗教自由”相符。以“同性恋”为例。起初,它是被普遍谴责的事物。后来文化稍有转变,它便成了宗教教义问题:有些宗教反对它,另一些自诩开明、崇尚嬉皮风的现代宗教则不然。接着,它被纳入宗教自由的范畴,成了“求同存异”的问题。再后来,又一次文化转变发生,如今它被普遍庆祝,而那些不加入欢庆的人,不再被视为出于可接受的宗教信念,而是被视为出于偏执、仇恨和成见,而这些都是造成伤害的东西,因而可以受到监管,于是你现在必须为同性婚礼烤蛋糕,不管你愿不愿意。闭嘴,烤你的蛋糕。
Honestly, if the West wants to force Muslims to violate Islamic norms, it will just be the latest thing that proves how the supposed neutrality of secularism is a mirage. There is no neutrality. It is just Western cultural norms that underlie and inform everything. That is why I never appeal to “religious freedom” in my arguments. This is because the term “religious freedom” comes from a Western philosophical context with a very particular definition of “religion” based on Western cultural conceptions. If the culture shifts enough, you can shove anything down people’s throats and tell them it is consistent with “religious freedom.” Look at “homosexuality.” At first, it was something universally condemned. Then the culture shifted a little and it became a matter of religious doctrine — some religions look down on it, other modernist hippy religions do not. And then, it fell within the domain of religious freedom and “agree to disagree.” Then another cultural shift happened and now it is universally celebrated and those who fail to join the jubilation are not doing so out of acceptable religious conviction. No, they are doing so out of bigotry, hate, and prejudice and these are all things that cause harm and that is something that can be regulated and now you have to bake a cake for the gay wedding, whether you like to or not. JUST SHUT UP AND BAKE THE CAKE.
穆斯林之所以能够在西方生活,并在相当程度上履行自己的宗教,并不是因为什么神圣而神奇的宽容、自由和世俗主义原则之类的东西,诸如此类的说法统统不对。绝对不是。请务必停止相信这种无稽之谈。西方文化根植于基督教,它与伊斯兰教恰好足够兼容,使穆斯林能够勉强过活,这纯属巧合。对我们来说,这是一桩幸运的偶然,感谢真主。但这种局面随时可能改变。随着西方逐渐远离其基督教根源,并不断接纳异教和撒旦主义的思想,终有一天,国家的法律会使履行伊斯兰教的宗教义务变得不可能。而当这些法律被强制实施时,人们会认为它们与宗教自由完全一致。事实上,届时还会有人说,正是宗教自由为这些法律提供了理由。然后,会有一些穆斯林仍然轻信,以为自己能够作为穆斯林自由地生活,但到那时,他们所认为的"伊斯兰"将与我们所知道的伊斯兰判若云泥。而那些没有沉睡的穆斯林,届时将要面对许多考验和磨难。这也许不会发生在我们这一代,也许会。但如果美国和欧洲近十年的走向持续下去,这只是时间问题。真主至知。
Muslims have been able to live in the West and practice their religion to a satisfactory extent not because of some hallowed, magical principles of religious tolerance and freedom and secularism blah blah blah. Absolutely not. Please, please stop believing this nonsense. It is just a coincidence that Western culture, which has its roots in Christianity, is compatible enough with Islam for Muslims to be able to get by. That has been a fortunate happenstance for us alhamdulillah. But that could change at any time. As the West moves away from the influence of its Christian roots and continues to adopt paganistic and satanic ideologies, the day will come that the law of the land will make it impossible to practice the Islamic religious obligations. And those laws, when they are imposed, will be seen as perfectly consistent with religious freedom. In fact, it will be said that religious freedom is what justifies those laws in the first place. And then there will be some Muslims who continue to drink the kool-aid and believe they can live freely as Muslims, except at that point what they think is “Islam” will be nothing like what we know is Islam. And other Muslims, those Muslims who are not asleep, will have a lot of trials and tribulations to contend with at that time. It might not happen in our lifetime. Or maybe it will. But if things continue to proceed as they have been for the past decade in America and Europe, it is a matter of time. Allah knows best.
我不想显得过于悲观,但我认为我们必须充分感激那些非穆斯林邻居。他们真诚地容忍我们,这种容忍是真实的,而非表面的;对他们而言,这种状况想必有许多令人费解之处。我相信,这背后有一种深植于文化记忆中的力量,它来自这些社会曾经是传统基督教社会的时代。真正意义上的宽容本身就是一种宗教价值,而非世俗自由主义的价值。 作为穆斯林,我们的责任是以善良的品行做好邻居,并忠于我们的信仰,使他们能够看到,世上仍有一些人,以自启示之初便已被崇拜的方式敬拜真主。他们理应得到这样的见证,而如果我们放弃了干劲(himma)与坚守(istiqama),便是辜负了他们,也辜负了我们自己。
I do not mean to be overly pessimistic, but I think we have to give a lot of credit to our non-Muslim neighbors who do sincerely tolerate us (with a real and not superficial tolerance) and what for them must be a lot of weirdness. My belief is that, it is that deep cultural memory from the days when these were traditional Christian societies. Tolerance in the real sense itself is a religious value, not a secular liberal one. Our duty as Muslims is to be good neighbors in kind and be true to our faith so that they can see that there are some people left on the face of the earth who worship God as He has been worshiped from the time of revelation. They deserve that and we fail them and ourselves by abandoning himma and istiqama (zeal/fortitude and steadfastness).
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/25/ in-switzerland-muslim-schoolchildren-who-refuse-to-shake-their-teachers-hand-may-be-fined-5000
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/25/ in-switzerland-muslim-schoolchildren-who-refuse-to-shake-their-teachers-hand-may-be-fined-5000