Posted on 02/21/2017 5:50:04 AM PST by Helicondelta
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, and leader of the National Front, canceled a Tuesday meeting with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
"I met the grand mufti of Al-Azhar," she told reporters, referring to a visit in 2015 to Cairo's 1,000-year-old center of Islamic learning. "The highest Sunni authority didn't have this requirement, but it doesn't matter. You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up," she said.
As Reuters reports, Le Pen, who is a frontrunner for the presidency, is hoping to boost her foreign policy credentials with a two-day visit to Lebanon nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes.
After meeting Hariri on Monday, Le Pen went against current French policy in Syria by describing President Bashar al-Assad as the "only viable solution" for preventing Islamic State from taking power in Syria. "I explained clearly that ... Bashar al-Assad was obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than Islamic State would be if it came to power in Syria," she told reporters.
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Apparently she is not a Frenchman.
“America’s leftist feminists would most likely cover up.”
If you were female and looked like all too many Feni-Nazis, you would want the competition covered up. If you can’t look attractive, covering everyone helps you.
Excellent. Smart woman.
Reagan, Thatcher, John Paul II worked to free people from the great evil of communism. This generation’s great evil is radical Islam (actually, all Islam). We have Trump and hopefully soon Le Pen to fight the battle. But the current Pope is MIA.
Make the men take off their stupid garb and put on a respectable suit and tie. How bout dat?
Wow that picture has me laughing out loud all by myself!
Woooooo!! Change Viva la France to Viva Le Pen?!
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