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Related: About this forumFrance's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Tue Feb 21, 2017 | 7:35am EST
France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf
By Simon Carraud | BEIRUT
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.
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France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf
By Simon Carraud | BEIRUT
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.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-lepen-idUSKBN1600R6
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France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2017
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jehop61
(1,735 posts)1. Abhor her politics
But good for her. Why should a western woman have to wear a headdress? Always cringed when western reporters wear them while reporting in the Mideast .
nycbos
(6,034 posts)2. I hate to say it...
... but good for her. She shouldn't be forced to comply with a dress code.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)3. Yep. Good for her. It's bad enough
western women have to wear such crap in their countries. I am inclined to think we shouldn't permit headscarves here, but I'm willing to respect the women who do wear them.
ChazII
(6,204 posts)4. In agreement
with the other DUers here. She should not have to wear a scarf.