How to avoid shaking hands

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In western countries not shaking hands with women is not only illegal, it is downright rude and denigrating!

Illegal?
What the heck?
I've lived in Germany for three years, and never saw such a thing.

Because he then actively insults those women, who – emancipated as they are – expect to be treated as equals to men.

I didn't know that shaking hands is something of a gender equality problem.
I shake hands with females, but unless I know them well, I generally tend to nod for a simple greeting, nothing more.
How am I denigrating the women? Besides, it's not like they held out their hands, and I refused to shake it, I simply did not extend my own hand to them for a greeting.

If Muslims expect that westerners respect their Muslim customs and laws when they visit their Muslim countries why don't these same Muslims extend that same courtesy to westerners when they, those Muslims, go to LIVE in those western countries? As they do in their millions.

Of course, one has to respect the customs of the place one lives in.
I did that, and had minimal problems with the Germans I lived amongst.
Unlike my other countrymen who were BORN in the place, and were citizens, unlike me, an emigrant.