Antwerp: Dropping alcohol from the menu

Immigrant snackbar owners in Antwerp are cutting out alcohol from their menu more and more often, due to pressure from fundamentalist Muslims.

"Extremists go into the restaurants and point out to the owner that it is contrary to Islam to serve alcohol. They continue to do that until the owners yield," says Farid Hemdane, president for the district council of Borgerhout.

Source: HLN (Dutch)

See also: Antwerp: Muslim protest against music

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

And the poor restaurant owners KNOW the police can't be everywhere, and they KNOW they're being bullied by people who would slash their throats without blinking, and they figure "we don't make that much for selling booze anyway", so they yield. And intolerant Islam ("peace-loving" my foot and fanny!) takes another bite out of the freedoms we take for granted in the West. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING ABOUT THIS? AND WHERE ARE THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS WHO SHOULD BE DEMANDING THAT THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES PROTECT THEIR LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS?

phil_rdkick said...

This christian longs for the day when some muslim 'infidel' thug trys to dictate how I should run my business or my life...they better be prepared to meet God on that day...

Christian Soldier said...

phil_rdkick

They wouldn't meet God on that day, they would goto hell and then later on in the day of judgment they would get to meet God.

And contrary to what they think it's not Allah/Baal they would meet.

Jewish Odysseus said...

Perhaps I am naive, but these restaurants are surely licensed by the city?

The city cd easily pass a law mandating that restaurants above a certain size MUST make alcohol available to their customers, or lose their licenses.

This wd make Islamism an untenable financial burden...As it shd be.

Esther said...

Jewish Odysseus,

There's no reason Antwerp should force restaurants to serve anything. There *is* a reason why they should protect their restaurant owners from any sort of illegal influence.

Anonymous said...

I would fight for my wine and bear.

Anonymous said...

Great forum about the danger of islamization of Europe:

www.islam-deutschland.info/forum

Anonymous said...

More and more good people are leaving Netherlands, last year almost 120 000 !

The islamisation of Netherlands are going even faster.

This is a direct result of political decisions, this is what they wanted to happend and they have been warned against it for 20-30 years...

Jewish Odysseus said...

Esther, I of course agree that every resident of any city should be protected. But since we are dealing here w/a particularly insidious form of intimidation, "religious imperatives, and such unenforceable factors like "vulnerable relatives back in the Dar al-Islam," I think such a licensing method wd effectively work to enforce the civil rights of these poor restauranteurs.

If the Euro-alQaeda agents succeeded in frightening them all to remove alcohol, AND to keep quiet to the police, how wd you ever prove it was done via threat? "Protection" wd be impossible.

But code-enforcement is always easy.

Anonymous said...

Good morning Beligium,

is that a bad joke ???
I guess it´s a bit like in Germany, the medias do not show the troublemakers in the light of reality. Peoples who act like described should be isolated and send back to their homelands - I guess their life there must be like in paradise (thats of course the reason why they go to Belgium or any other non -islamic oriented land). Our nothing against doing democaritc force / governement is transforming us / you to sheeps wich are ""fucked"" by xxx and their confuse "ideology" (Voltaire has classified it very good, Iheard even Voltaire could not be quoted in some parts of europe (even france :o))))) )Nvertheless and quite sure there are many peoples wich emigrate from moslem-contries and they won´t express their religion ,they are willing to become a citizen of europe/our culture , and there are fucked too by the xxx, by the incompetent justice, by the peoples who try to by good ones but nothing more ,by the incompetent governement and last but not lest by the ((zombie-)governement of the EC.

if this is europe, it´s better it die !