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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
ROME: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi gave a speech to 100 young Italian women recruited by a model agency and urged them to convert to Islam, newspapers reported on Monday.
The young women selected for Qadhafi’s speech had to be at least five feet seven inches and “pleasant” and “well dressed” but low cut tops and mini-skirts were banned.
Each woman was paid between 50 and 60 euros and was hired by the Hostessweb agency, the reports said.
The women were told to got to a luxury hotel in the Via Veneto, without knowing why, and were then taken in buses to the Libyan ambassador’s residence. Qadhafi is in Rome for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit.
The leader of the Libyan revolution arrived one hour late at 10:30 pm to the amazement of the women who had expected a party rather than a lesson on the history of relations between Islam and the West and the role of women.
“It is not true that Islam is against women,” he reportedly said, with the Libyan ambassador, an interpreter and two of his “Amazon” female body guards in military uniform at his side, said Corriere della Sera, quoting the young women.
Before offering each woman a copy of the Holy Qura’an, he said: “Convert to Islam, Jesus was sent for the Hebrews, not for you. But Mohammed (PBUH)was sent for all humans,” La Stampa newspaper reported.
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