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.

[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.