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French Presidential Candidate Refuses To Wear Headscarf When Meeting Muslim Cleric
Rusty Weiss Follow on Twitter February 23, 2017
Marine Le Pen, French Presidential candidate for the far-right political party Front National, had a meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti, a top Muslim cleric.
Upon arriving, an aide for the cleric demanded she wear a headscarf before entering his office.
"You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti," Le Pen said, "but I will not cover myself up."
She then walked out.
Take a look at the exchange:
OMG I love her ! Marine Le Pen refuses to wear a headscarf! ????
Thuglife! ???? #TuesdayMotivation pic.twitter.com/fqyIndMxk8
— Oak-Town☢Unfiltered™ (@hrtablaze) February 21, 2017
Via the Washington Post:
Le Pen, who is on a three-day visit to Lebanon this week and has met senior officials, was to meet with the country's grand mufti, Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian.
Shortly after she arrived at his office, one of his aides handed her a white headscarf to put on. Following a discussion with his aides that lasted few minutes, she refused and returned to her car.
It would seem the cleric's office was trying to embarrass Le Pen, as she had told them before the meeting that she would not wear a scarf.
"They didn't cancel the meeting (after informing them), so I thought they would accept the fact that I wouldn't wear one," she said. "They tried to impose it upon me."
The mufti's office issued a statement calling Le Pen's actions "inappropriate behavior."
Le Pen's refusal to bow to the Muslim cleric earned her well-deserved praise on social media.
https://twitter.com/DBloom451/status/834027111925051393
https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/834108325587460096
She even earned a comparison to our own President:
France's Trump.
Lebanon's grand mufti reqd French pres cand Marine Le Pen to wear a headscarf. She canceled: "I will not cover myself up." pic.twitter.com/MPOgVBhrvA
— Philip Schuyler (@FiveRights) February 21, 2017
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Rusty Weiss
Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.
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