France`s Marine Le Pen Refuses To Wear Headscarf To Meet Grand Mufti
(World News Egypt)

CNN reported Tuesday far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen cancelled a meeting with Lebanon´s Grand Mufti after refusing to wear a headscarf. Le Pen is currently taking part in a two-day tour of Lebanon courting Franco-Lebanese voters ahead of the first round of French elections on April 23, the network reported. She told reporters she was surprised by demands she wear a scarf, saying when she met the Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar during a visit to Egypt in 2015, this was not a requirement, the report said. `I met the grand mufti of Al-Azhar,` she told reporters. `The highest Sunni authority didn`t have this requirement, but it doesn`t matter.` `You can pass on my respects to the...