France's Marine Le Pen meets Maronite Christian Church Head, Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai in Lebanon after canceling an earlier meeting with the country's grand mufti after refusing to wear a headscarf. French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen walked away from a meeting with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim leaders after she refused to wear a headscarf. Onlookers say Le Pen was offered a white shawl to cover her hair, which she refused. France's far right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen reacts after delivering her speech as part of the National Front's annual May Day rally in Paris on May 1, 2016. As Harvard Prof. Leila Ahmed explained in “A Quiet Revolution,” Muslim women began unveiling in the early 20th century.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2017 11:09 UTC