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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

12 Replies to “Marine le Pen refuses demand to wear head cloth in Muslim mufti meeting”

  1. Happy you posted this story.
    Notice media keep repeating she will lose the second round of voting in May.
    It reminds me of Trump scenario. She’s gaining a lot of good points in her report card with the French. This will boost her even more.

    • “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.”
      …
      “This is the protocol” at the mufti’s office, the statement said. It said the mufti’s aides tried to give her the headscarf and that Le Pen refused to take it.

      “The mufti’s office regrets this inappropriate behavior in such meetings,” the statement said.

      Le Pen said she had met in the past with Egypt’s Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, the head of the Sunni world’s most prestigious learning institute, without wearing a headscarf. Photos of Le Pen with Ahmed al-Tayeb in 2015 in Cairo show her with the cleric with her hair uncovered.”

  6. Ah. This is the hat that the sheikh ports.
    https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Aug-08/266448-who-is-sheikh-abdel-latif-derian.ashx
    If wearing the headscarf would be a type of bowing down, then which shared traditions support a political leader who refuses to worship another leader? (Hint: getting close to the annual Jewish and Catholic festive spring celebration of Purim when good and evil temporarily reverse.) http://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/taylor/mordecai_refuses_to_bow_down_to_haman.htm

  7. This may have been a publicity stunt but it probably brought her a lot of votes so good for h er.

  8. “It said the mufti’s aides tried to give her the headscarf and that Le Pen refused to take it.”

    Give, schmive. This wasn’t any sort of “gift” being given to le Pen. Where was the wrapping paper and ribbon? What, no enclosure or greeting card?!?

    This was the mufti blatantly trying to impose his will upon someone who is already fed up to the teeth with Islam and its institutionalized misogyny. Too bad this sort of thing doesn’t happen a lot more often.

  9. There once was a Sheikh named Latif.
    He visited France to speak and eat beef.
    In a statement he said,
    “Follow my protocol instead.
    No way can I drink champaigne with red meat!”