Marine Le Pen refuses to don headscarf for meeting with Lebanon’s grand mufti

France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has refused to don a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim cleric and walked away from the scheduled appointment after a brief squabble at the entrance.

France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has refused to don a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim cleric and walked away from the scheduled appointment after a brief squabble at the entrance.

The debacle topped Ms Le Pen’s three-day visit to Lebanon, where she held her first campaign meeting with a head of state.