France’s candidate for president Marine Le Pen has created controversy in France that is not terribly different from what surrounds President Trump. They are both deeply concerned about the negative impact that uncontrolled immigration is having on their countries. Both are willing to call out Islamic terrorism for what it is, something that many western leaders refuse to do. As such, she has opponents that hold to similar leftist ideologies as those who are opposing President Trump.
She has recently created a stir during a visit to Lebanon by refusing to wear a headscarf when meeting a top Muslim cleric. Unlike Hillary Clinton who during her failed campaign wore a hijab to curry favor, Le Pen has refused to do so.
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.
Expressing her unwillingness to cover herself in order to meet the mufti, the meeting was cancelled.
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.
“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.
This comes as no real surprise given the state of things in France.
French law bans headscarves in the public service and for high school pupils, in the name of church-state separation and equal rights for women. Le Pen wants to extend this ban to all public places, a measure that would affect Muslims most of all.
It wasn’t just the issue of the headscarf that created controversy either. Mrs. Le Pen’s remarks regarding Syria and its President Assad upset people as well.
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.
Lebanon has some 1.5 million Syrian refugees.
“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.
It is clear that Mrs. Le Pen views ISIS and other forms of radical Islam as real threats to her nation. It is also clear that she is willing to stand up for traditional French culture. This is something that has been under attack not only from the left, but from some of those Muslims who have been allowed to enter France.
That her views are popular with a significant and growing segment of French society comes as no surprise at all. People in the west are growing tired of being told that their cultures need to change to suit the demands of immigrants.
Source: Euronews
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Way to go Marine!
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