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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It’s this kind of attitude that is going to bring her to the seat of power. I hear her economic measures are to the left of Bernie!
Now that’s a REAL feminist, as opposed to the so-called feminists who enable these Muslim woman-abusers.
Good for her!!
Le Pen has to fight hard since dirt is being dished on her almost daily and police are investigating alleged “wrongdoing” involving someone being paid for a non-working job.
You go lady!
Let’s see a world- without- hijab day just to show solidarity with the concept that a woman’s hair should not be treated as an aphrodisiac that must be hidden from innocent men
Well,
At least one Frenchie has balls.
“Well,
At least one Frenchie has balls.”
Marine Le Pen and Joan the maid.
When French women have had enough the French men find their testicles.
I’m liking her better and better.
America’s leftist feminists would most likely cover up. Wouldn’t want to appear Islamophobic.
Bravo.
Hooray for Marine!
She’ll make an excellent leader; no wonder the Muzzies are getting upset!
I predict we will never see Melania wearing a head-bag.
Yeah, who needs crazy people in the first place?
Go you Helen Thomas? In some instances they are used.
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