Saturday, June 13, 2009

Thank God They Did not give him a blackboard !!

Qaddafi met with 700 Italian women in Rome today , I do not know what he had to tell them or why he even wanted to meet them but I feared that he would rewind his show when he had a meeting with Egyptian women in July 1973, seriously I feared it.

In July 1973 Qaddafi was visiting Egypt and he asked President Sadat to meet with Egyptian women. President Sadat accepted despite he feared of what would be said in the meeting , yet he accepted and do not ask me why. Sadat arranged a meeting between Egyptian ladies mainly from the NDP plus the prominent women icons in Egypt like Amina El-Said. Jihan Sadat was there and she still remembers it , Mrs. Qaddafi was there is a very rare appearance, I believe it was the last time for her to appear in public.
It is worth mention , in fact I must mention that Qaddafi requested a blackboard and a piece of chalk so he could demonstrate his ideas.
In the meeting Qaddafi had just written three words.
He had written :
1- Virginity :  disposable "He used other word which I prefer not to use again"

2-Menstrual Cycle : indisposable

3-Pregnancy: disposable
After writing these words ,there was a huge silence in the hall and it was the silence of the world before the storm !!!!!!!!! Sadat was already giving him his back but when he saw that reactions , he turned back and he was stunned , he had to be !!
Among the attendance were famous legendary Egyptian feminists and pioneer women like Amina El-Said, Mofida Abdel Rahman,Aisha Abdel Rahman and you can imagine the reaction of the ladies when he wrote that stuff and started to rant as usual about his views regarding the role of the woman. Thank God that the daughter of the Nile Doria Shafiek was dead then because the famous feminist and political figure who went on a hunger strike for women's rights in the early days of the revolution would not have tolerated that.
Ironically nobody from the attendance remembers what he had said , all the people remember  very well the reactions of the ladies attending his speech , it was like the hurricane based on what I read.
Jihan Sadat describes the situation like this
Women attendance  were shouting and screaming against Qaddafi led by famous feminist Amina El-Said, Qaddafi was firing back at them, Mrs. Qaddafi was on the verge of crying ,she was insulted , Anwar Sadat was laughing at the scene and I was so angry
 I know that for sure they did not gather around him like the Italian women , in fact I know if they did ,it was because they wanted to kill him.I do not doubt that if he had written that stuff in Italian ,those Italian women would have killed him !!

Sadat after that enlightening lecture decided to go to his rest house in Monfia and in the way from Cairo Gigi was too angry and he was just laughing , after all how he could know that this was going to happen. When they arrived they knew that Qaddafi was in his way to them. The man came and he was angry from the ladies' reactions , what he had done to deserve that !!?? He was so angry from Amina El-Said and kept insulting her and Sadat was laughing !!
IF you look to it , it was a comic scene for sure , a mad man dealing with hardcore feminists.
Because of this incident Qaddafi is no longer welcomed to address women in Egypt. Because of this incident I feared from what he was going to say to the Italian women
Thank God that he read only from his Green Book !!

 
 
Update

  • In his meeting with the Italian Women ,Qaddafi has described the Arab women as pieces of furniture !!
  • He spoke about liberating the Western women from the hard obligations they from work as they were forced to work after the WWII 
  • Thanks to dear Ahmed Shokeir I knew what Qaddafi had said in his meeting with the Women's union in 1973, he compared the woman to a cow !! 
  • So from a cow to piece of furniture  not a big change , he won't be Qaddafi if he does not enlighten us in this way !!

8 comments:

  1. هم الستات دول عاقلين ؟ !!

    فى حد يضيع وقته مع الاخ القذافى بالشكل ده ؟

    من حلاوته يعنى :))؟

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  2. Where can I find more info about his speech in Cairo? To be honest I didn't understand anything of what you said... I mean why did he make a speech like that in the first place and why these topics?

    I'm 100% sure the guy is mentally disturbed and it's not an issue of age, I mean Sadat used to call him "El Walad El Magnoon beta3 Libya" after his attacks on El Salloum after the 73 war. But I'm interested in knowing what was going on in his mind when he decided to give that speech and what he meant.

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  3. @Mido,lol
    It is for his or rather Libya's money money money

    @Mo, You can find it in Jihan Sadat's interviews ,In July 1973 Qaddafi made a visit to Egypt,it seems that he hoped we would have some sort of Union like the one in 1958 between Egypt and Syria, When he came he asked to meet several groups in Egypt from politicians to Al-Azher Men to women so he would explain his progressive thoughts..etc
    I think Sadat could not stop him then because we were preparing for the war and even though it was too early to be known on a wide range including the President then in July he would not jeopardize refusing an offer that coco case,you mentioned what happened in Salloum ,he is nuts
    I will try to scan El-Sadat's article itself as it includes more details about the incident.

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  4. I am eagre to know what has happend in both speechs: Italy 2009 and Egypt 1973. My God, over 37 years and he's with this mentality.

    It doesn't require me to put myself into the shoes of women to understand the shock of his speech in Egypt; khalass ya3ni this is the topics where he cam to talk about?

    Anyway I am sick from the mentalities that can cope with women as humans and just minimize them to this level.

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  5. @Hicham,insh Allah I will scan the sadat article about this incident ,it is hilarious

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  6. Commenting on the latest update: from 'Cow' to 'Peice of Furniture' I think there's a big difference, at least cows count among living creatures but furniture!

    Okay seriously, I don't know what does he mean? May be he meant that they become something to be add-on for decoration purpose only? Anyone have insight on this? :)

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  7. @Hicham, Do not forget he is speaking about the Arab Muslim woman but the western woman which he was speaking to !!
    For sure it is downgrade , but come on He is the King of kings of Africa !!
    I think no one gives too much attention anymore for what he is saying, I did not see too much coverage for that big speech abroad as I expected

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  8. If Qaddafi wants to talk to Egyptian women, no one in Egypt will stop him.
    Money talks...

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