{"id":46949,"date":"2013-07-01T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/officer-warns-babies-are-used-by-terrorists-after-elite-country-club-calls-them-over-breast-feeding-mom\/46949\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:20:37","slug":"officer-warns-babies-are-used-by-terrorists-after-elite-country-club-calls-them-over-breast-feeding-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/officer-warns-babies-are-used-by-terrorists-after-elite-country-club-calls-them-over-breast-feeding-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Warns 'Babies Are Used By Terrorists' After Elite Country Club Calls Them Over Breast-Feeding Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Belgian diplomat told the New York Post<\/em><\/a> that he and his family were kicked out of the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, New York after his wife was breast-feeding their child. He said they were treated like \u201cterrorists.\u201d <\/p>\n

36-year-old Tom Neijens, the first secretary of the Belgium Mission to the UN, went to the country club in June with his wife, 34-year-old Roseline Remans. They arrived for lunch, even though they weren\u2019t members of the club. They were nonetheless granted permission to dine there. <\/p>\n

But when Remans began to breast-feed her her daughter Luka, the trouble began. A female manager allegedly came up to the family and reportedly said, \u201cPlease leave immediately, you are disturbing the members.\u201d Remans was told to finish breastfeeding in the bathroom. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t ask a person to have lunch in the restroom \u2013 why would you ask a baby to have lunch there?\u201d Neijens told the Post.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Greenburgh Police Department reportedly arrived shortly after the request. Detect Scott Harding yelled, \u201cclose the doors!\u201d Other diners were told to leave the room. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe had one hand on his gun, one hand on his Taser,\u201d Neijens said of Harding, who said the couple were trespassing and that other people at the country club thought they may be terrorists because of their black backpack. <\/p>\n

After Remans questioned that logic, the cop allegedly said: \u201cIn Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists.\u201d After the cop was showed Neijens\u2019 State Department ID, he said, \u201cYou have to understand, this club has had terrorism threats in the past.\u201d <\/p>\n

Neijens has now sent an angry e-mail to the Metropolis Country Club. \u201cI am deeply worried about your staff if they cannot distinguish between a European couple looking for a quiet place to breast-feed a baby and suicide terrorists carrying a backpack,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

But a spokesman for the Greenburgh police said the incident was a \u201ccultural misunderstanding\u201d and that it was the Belgian diplomat who said, \u201cyou must think the baby is a terrorist.\u201d <\/p>\n

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