Shari'ah and Belgian Beer

In other offbeat news, the speaker of the lower house of the Belgian Parliament has cancelled a lunch with a parliamentary delegation from Iran, because he was unwilling to stomach the Iranians’ insistence that the lunch be dry.

Belgium. Standing up to Islamist totalitarianism when it really counts.

Incidentally, the Speaker of Iran’s Parliament also refused to shake hands with the (female) President of the Belgian Senate, resulting in the cancellation of a planned meeting between her and the delegation.