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Qaddafi’s Islamification “Party”
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This story is almost too crazy to believe, but knowing how psychotic Qaddafi is, it’s really hardly surprising.
Reuters is reporting on a “party” that Qaddafi had arranged with 200 Italian women, having recruited them with an ad asking for women “between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses.”
They were told that “they would receive 60 euros ($90) and ‘some Libyan gifts’” for attending what they expected to be a party.
Instead, Qaddafi arrived and “gave them a lesson on Libya and the role of women in Islam.” Then, after approximately two hours “the lesson, including questions and answers through an interpreter, concluded with an exhortation by [Qaddafi] to ‘convert to Islam’ and with each woman given a copy of the Koran and a book of sayings by [Qaddafi].”
Among his bizarre ramblings that night included the gem of a claim that “Jesus was not crucified but that ‘someone who looked like him’ was put to death in his place.”
Priceless.
Here’s a video news report of it by al-Jazeera: