Colonel Moammar Gadhafi is like a cartoon character who just won’t disappear. When the Libyan leader visited Italy recently, his rhetoric and questionable logic was again a source of comic relief to the international community.
In a speech he gave in Rome, Gadhafi told his Italian audience that Europe should convert to Islam, the “ultimate religion.” He later met with a few hundred young Italian women – hired by an agency – and handed them copies of the Koran. The coverage that Gadhafi received in the international media pointed to the irony of his lecturing Europeans on moral issues while human rights violations in Libya continue unabated. This only added to the opprobrium surrounding the Libyan leader.
