"We Were at Least Expecting a Snack"

By Jeffrey Goldberg
A sample complaint from one of the 200 women at a gala in Rome, at which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lectured attendants on the role of women before inviting them to convert to Islam. 

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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/11/-we-were-at-least-expecting-a-snack/30320/