The anti-immigration leader took her anger to Twitter on Wednesday following comments by a French journalist drawing parallels between her National Front (FN) party and the so-called "Islamic State" (IS), DW wrote.
Le Pen, a vocal critic of Islam and its influence on French society, tweeted three grisly and unverifiable IS propaganda photos, calling out television journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin in each. One photo showed a decapitated man lying on the ground, another showed a prisoner being burned alive and the third depicted a man being crushed under the tread of a tank. "This is #Daesh!" Le Pen wrote above each photo, using an alternate name for the terrorist organization which IS fighters dislike.
The tweets were in response to a question posed by Bourdin on Tuesday during his talk show on BFMTV. Speaking to a Middle East expert, the journalist asked if there were similarities between IS and the nationalist FN.
Le Pen didn't take the suggestion lightly, as demonstrated by her response on Twitter.
"The parallel drawn this morning by @JJBourdin_RMC between #Daesh and #FN is an unacceptable slight. He must take back his repugnant comments," she wrote, before sharing the three images in subsequent tweets.
Her tweets drew backlash from Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who went on Twitter to describe the photos as "monstrous."
"Mme. Le Pen: incendiary public debate, political and moral failing, non-respect for the victims...," he wrote.
