He's not a retard and he did the right thing. There are some imperfections in his line of thinking but it isn't the hand shaking. There is Islamic basis for his decision. For example:
Mu'qal Ibn Yasar, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that the Prophet [peace and blessings be upon him] said: "It is better that you be struck on your head with an iron needle than to touch a woman you are not allowed to" [Reported by al-Ruyani in his Musnad and by al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir)
It's a common Islamic belief to not touch non-mahrem women. I'm surprised some of you guys are ignorant of this. A Muslim teen on the street could've told you this.
He's a new Muslim but he seems to know more about Islam than some of you you by a long shot. The problem lies with your lack of Islamic knowledge rather than him being a lunatic. I think some of you on this forum need to spend less time talking about politics & countries which you'll never really influence & use some of that time to read up on your religion instead.
And what's the deal with some of you being so harsh against this decision? Calling him retard, lunatic, crazy mofo etc... Take a chill pill. Do you have real life frustrations or something which you vent out on here? Like I'm not seeing the need for so much harshness, especially when a google search could've told you that not shaking hands with non-mahrem actually has islamic basis.
https://www.al-islam.org/code-ethic...sayyid-masud-masumi/rules-related-socializing
If the hand shake is skin to skin (which most handshakes are), it's banned by shias too lol. But it's just those radical "wahabis" at it again eh?