Moammar Gadhafi Holds Party For 200 Young Italian Women, Tries To Convert Them To Islam (VIDEO)

(AP)ROME — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday.

At least they got paid.

A reporter for Italy's ANSA news agency went undercover with the women, who were hired for euro50 ($75) by a modeling agency for the event Sunday evening. Journalist Paola Lo Mele said the women assembled at a hotel, where some where left behind because they were not tall enough or dressed modestly enough.

Those accepted were taken to a villa, where Gadhafi lectured them on women's rights and religion, and urged them to convert to Islam.

"All the girls expected a party with a gala dinner," Lo Mele told her agency. Instead, "he made a 45-minute speech on Islam and women's role in Islam. It was a bit of an indoctrination session."

Lo Mele took pictures before and after the event, showing the women carrying Qurans they received as gifts. A second soiree was planned for Monday evening, ANSA said.

Gadhafi was in Rome to attend a U.N. summit on world hunger.

After his speech, Gadhafi made an impromptu visit to one of downtown Rome's swankiest piazzas, stopping traffic as he sat down at an outdoor cafe for something to drink.

Comments

[riff4u]

06:26 PM on 11/30/2009

Did anybody convert?

[mullah]

08:49 AM on 11/18/2009

Gaddafi was only trying to save those poor lost souls. How nice of him.

[mullah]

10:34 PM on 11/17/2009

That was so Christian of him. Christians do that kind of thing.

[brokerthanu]

09:58 PM on 11/17/2009

$75? What a cheap john.

[weatherwaxx]

08:37 PM on 11/17/2009

Dang, that's cheesy. Where I live we get our fundamenta­Iist rants delivered right to the door!

[Destin]

08:03 PM on 11/17/2009

He needs to get out more, this is not a very good way to score women. The last thing many of them probably wanted was to be lectured about religion. Trust me, that's probably not the "Oh God!" that they had in mind.

[quincyyyyy]

07:56 PM on 11/17/2009

then they had one huge orgy...

[jws2346]

06:51 PM on 11/17/2009

I say braavo Maramore. Keep on a' clickin' on

[SadButWiser]

06:44 PM on 11/17/2009

BTW, he lectures everyone. You should watch his interviews with Al-Jazeera­h. You really never know what to expect from him. I think they should make a movie about him.

[Sandmanj]

06:19 PM on 11/17/2009

It' stories like this one that point out the sad fact that Islam is a medeival belief system lost in the modern world. Its representa­tives, if Gadaffi can be called that, don't even begin to realize how inappropri­ate and out of place their conduct is.

[The Albany Kid]

06:14 PM on 11/17/2009

I wonder if The Beastie Boys song "To All the Girls" was playing in the background­.

[sit down tommy]

06:08 PM on 11/17/2009

I really fail to understand why someone would hire 200 girls to lecture them. What's the point? What is he trying to achieve? What's going on in Gadhafi's brain?
My bet is on a terminal degenerati­ve neural disease.
BTW: he told the paid audience that Jesus Christ was not crucifixed­. The one who died on the cross was a Jesus double.

[KriTiKiT]

05:10 PM on 11/17/2009

are you serious, a horn dog want more pretty girls for islam, you know they ain't virgins.

[Pierogi kid]

04:09 PM on 11/17/2009

do you really think Sil would suffer this charlatan if this wann't going on?
http://www­.dowjones.­de/site/20­09/06/liby­a-interest­ed-in-inve­sting-in-e­nel-eni-it­aly-min.ht­ml

[Moshe]

04:05 PM on 11/17/2009

Seriously dude?

You are hosting 200 young Itatian women at a party.

And that's the best you can do?