Breitbart said Le Pen was meeting the country’s ‘persecuted Christians’, one man completely destroyed them

Far right French presidential candidate and leader of National Front Marine Le Pen travelled to Lebanon on a three-day visit to meet officials.

Le Pen cancelled a meeting with Lebanon’s Grand Mufti after refusing to wear a hijab, and defended herself by saying she hadn’t had to wear one for her audience with the Grand Sunni Muslim Mufti in Egypt.

Breitbart News reported on her visit in very specific terms, and in their headline alluded to the country's Christian community.

According to the CIA Factbook, Lebanon is made up of 54 per cent Muslims and 40.5 per cent Christians.

...Persecuted Christians?

Joey Ayoub, editor and writer for Global Voices and also one of these so-called 'persecuted' Christians sought to clarify matters...

What followed was a savage tongue-in-cheek Twitter thread:

The country’s parliament, the most powerful political force in the country has a fairly equal distribution of seats for Maronite and Greek Orthodox Christians, Shiite and Sunni Muslims as well as the Druze.

In October 2016 the parliament elected Michel Aoun – a Christian – as president.

Based on the National Pact, the president of Lebanon must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and Speaker of Parliament a Shia.

The Independent’s Robert Fisk ruminates that, though the country is sectarian, the violence of its neighbours hasn’t spilled over into the country.

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