France's Le Pen refuses to wear Muslim head scarf - walks out of meeting

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BEIRUT – France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused to go into a meeting with Lebanon's grand mufti on Tuesday after his aides asked her to wear a headscarf. Le Pen, who is on a three-day visit to Lebanon this week and has met senior officials, was scheduled to meet Grand Sunni Muslim Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian on Tuesday morning.
Shortly after she arrived at his office, one of his aides tried to give her a white headscarf to put on. She refused. Le Pen said she had met in the past with the grand mufti of Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of the world's top Sunni clerics, without wearing a veil. Le Pen met the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayeb, in 2015 and photos of the meeting show her with the cleric without wearing a veil.
Once she was told that customs are different in Lebanon, Le Pen walked toward her car and left.

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