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France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf |
2017-02-21 |
[Reuters] French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter. Le Pen, among the frontrunners for the presidency, is using a two-day visit to Lebanon to bolster her foreign policy credentials nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes. Many Lebanese fled to France, Lebanon's former colonial power, during their country's 1975-1990 civil war and became French citizens. After meeting Christian President Michel Aoun - her first public handshake with a head of state - and Sunni Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Monday, she had been scheduled to meet the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian He heads the Dar al-Fatwa, the top religious authority for Sunni Muslims in the multireligious country. The obligatory La Marseillaise |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#3 i hope she wins in a trump landslide |
Posted by: anon1 2017-02-21 16:52 |
#2 Vive Marine! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-21 12:19 |
#1 Good. If you are in France, you accept their customs and values. Fuck the mooslimb invaders. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-21 09:29 |