Belgian Cafe Throws Out American Tourist with Skullcap ("we are not serving Jews..")

Israel National News ^ | 02-11-08 | Staff

[atomic conspiracy]

(IsraelNN.com) A Belgian restaurant waiter threw out a 64-year-old American professor because he was wearing a skullcap [kipa], according to the European Jewish Press. "We are not serving Jews; [get] out of here," the waiter shouted at Marcel Kalmann after he entered the Le Paniel d'Or cafe in the city of Bruges

The tourist went to another cafe, where the owners helped him call the police. A Belgian Jewish newspaper reported that Kalmann said he will lodge a complaint against the restaurant owner and against the police for telling him the incident was not anti-Semitic and that he could not file a complaint in English.

Kalmann was born in the Auschwitz death camp three days before it was liberated by Allied troops.

[atomic conspiracy]

Not anti-Semitic? What does it take? Swastikas and a fired-up crematorium? Otoh, the professor may be lucky he wasn't arrested for wearing the kipa in a public place, thereby offending Muslim sensibilities.

[Bigg Red]

Holy moley! What would the police say such a thing!?

I really do not know anything about Belgium. Are they generally anti-semitic? Was this some muzzie waiter?

[MeanWestTexan]

I am not exactly Mr. Observant, but I am a large guy.

I tend to wear a kipah in Europe just to stare people down.

[Jeff Head]

Hmmm...I wonder what the 1st restaurant owner's name was?

Religion of Peace alert!

[KarlInOhio]

What would the police say such a thing!?

The officer was happy with his head's current location on his shoulders and he didn't want it removed.

[SnarlinCubBear]

The one I worked with was just arrogant and rude.

[AppyPappy]

The owner was probably a member of a protected class.

[Rome2000]

[Rome2000]

I really do not know anything about Belgium. Are they generally anti-semitic?

Bunch of fags that spend all day smoking cigarettes and talking crap.

Not a lot going on over there.

[MrB]

Waiting for a bunch of enraged Jews to declare fatwah and demand the owner of the store be beheaded...

waiting...
waiting...
waiting...

wait... all religions are equal, aren’t they?

[Rummyfan]

I really do not know anything about Belgium. Are they generally anti-semitic? Was this some muzzie waiter?

Granted I haven't lived in Belgium in twenty years but... It has a large and growing muzzie population. There are parts of Antwerp and Brussels that are no-go for non-muzzies. I would have thought that Bruges, a very popular tourist destination, would have been exempt from this kind of thing so I'm a little surprised. And in the past there seemed to be more animosity between Walloons (French-speaking Belgies) and the Flemish, the Dutch-oriented segment of the population, rather than against Jews.

[DocRock]

bttt

[TexanToTheCore]

Belgians

“Chocolatiers to the world”

[vpintheak]

This couldn’t happen in Belgium. It’s the heart of the peace lovin’ tolerant UN! The cold dead black heart of the left shows through again.

[Revelation 911]

Belgium ? that reminds me......

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles — there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They made some nice shotguns.

[toddlintown]

“I really do not know anything about Belgium.”

Typical very liberal country where they drink sour beer and wait for Americans with money to buy it.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Hmmm...I wonder what the 1st restaurant owner’s name was?

Achmed perhaps?

[Uncle Miltie]

I wear my leather jacket with a big American Flag on the back.

[Piranha]

"We are not serving Jews; [get] out of here,"

That's okay, I'm sure that the customer wasn't eating Jews.

[N. Theknow]

I really do not know anything about Belgium. Are they generally anti-semitic?

They waffle on it.

[Charles Martel]

Western Europe really has that “always fighting the last war” thing down pat.

[SlapHappyPappy]

To be frank, there is still a lot of anti-semitism in Europe, and it was there long before the growth in the Muslim population.

[Pontiac]

What’s that all about?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

So the police in Belgium are obeying the orders of the politicians to eliminate Christians and Jews and give the country to radical jihadis?

[atomic conspiracy]

Sounds like the early PJ O’Rourke. National Lampoon?

[Perchant]

Kalmann was born in the Auschwitz death camp three days before it was liberated by Allied troops.

I didn't know Auschwitz had a maternity ward.

[pgkdan]

OK...I’m lost. It’s very interesting but I’m lost.

[seoul62]

Why is everyone so surprised? I was in Germany - specifically Cologne and the general vibe that I felt there towards the Jewish People was of total indifference and scratch the surface: anti-semitism never left, still thrives./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Hacksaw]

Typical very liberal country where they drink sour beer and wait for Americans with money to buy it.

Stella Artois?

[Reily]

Belgium (as did Holland) had a Nazi/Fascist party in WW2.
Leon DeGrelle was the leader, avoided a Belgium treason conviction by escaping to Spain and died there in the 1970s (or so I remember!)

[MeanWestTexan]

Technicaly, Stella Artois is a malt liquor.

Get your uppity woman in the mood quicker, with Stella Artois’ malt liquor.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe the biggest blunder of the 20th century was Britain’s decision to go to war with Germany over Belgium. If not for that, the Germans would have beaten France quickly. No Bolshevik Revolution, no Nazis, no Hitler, no World War II, no Stalin, no Mao, no Ho Chi Minh, no Fidel.

[El Cid]

Re: 15

I'm pretty sure this was the monologue from Austin Powers when Dr. Evil gives his biography...
(a lot of slapstick - but there were some funny lines in that movie)

[Revelation 911]

I'm pretty sure this was the monologue from Austin Powers when Dr. Evil gives his biography...

EEEEvil

[tpanther]

You mean you need a maternity ward to give birth? WHO KNEW?

[rogue yam]

Well, I have no idea what the police said to the guy about the cafe incident but am I the only one here who thinks it is ridiculous to file a complaint against the Belgian police for not accepting a complaint report in English? It's not like cops here take statements from foreigners in Flemish.

[atomic conspiracy]

Don’t know about Flemish, but our police are able to take reports in Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Urdu, Hindi, and a host of others. There is a notice to that effect right on the door of the squad room.

[atomic conspiracy]

Forgot the all-important Arabic, too. Apparently they have translators on call for this.

[rogue yam]

Wow. All that in Texas.

[Perchant]

You mean you need a maternity ward to give birth? WHO KNEW?

The point is that it's difficult for so many reasons to imagine a 9 month pregnant woman at Auschwitz but it's easy to imagine people fudging their autobiographies.

[fish hawk]

Not much difference between a Belgian and a German, is there? Food wise, language wise, Nazi wise.

[Brujo]

It's the little speech Dr. Evil makes when he visits the family therapist with Scott.

[tpanther]

Wouldn’t even be surprised if his Dad was a nazi myself. Particularly if she’d been there for 9 months.

Who knows...but it’s not something we’ll ever know.

I’ve got a 101 year old woman who lost both parents and 8 of her 9 brothers and sisters in several camps.

Relatives tell of all kinds of undbeleiveable stuff, and I can certainly picture a malnourished woman not showing, let alone NOT exactly blabbering about it!

[tpanther]

Exactly, I think it’s a law here, I know we have to have language interpreters in our company for signing them onto hopsice care, an idea we most likely GOT from Europe!

[Eroteme]

Most Belgians speak English.

[rogue yam]

Even if that’s true, so what?

[Sender]

Here is a little of what is going on in Belgium these days. It ain't chocolate.

[cookcounty]

If he was born 3 days before the liberation of Auschwitz, he would be 62 years of age going on 63 in April, not 64.

But Europeans are racists beyond anything you've seen in the US. When I was in the Army in Germany (70's) civilians there would ask me if black people had tails that they tucked in, or whether they had 6 toes. Totally wierd and ignorant.

[perfect stranger]

Sounds like the early PJ O’Rourke.

I've never put the two together like that, but yes it does. It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud, but you did it. Thanks.