In five or 10 years, this will be what the majority believe . . . now that it's out there.
Where was she hiding the dynamite?
In five or 10 years, this will be what the majority believe . . . now that it's out there.
Time for a little history lesson
The Statue of Liberty is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States.
It was built by Gustave Eiffel and presented as a gift to the United States from the people of France.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your stupidity
From wikipedia:
"In 1869, Bartholdi returned to Egypt to propose a new lighthouse to be built at the entrance of the Suez Canal, which was newly completed. The lighthouse, which was to be shaped as a massive draped figured holding a torch, was not commissioned."For the Suez the massive figure's purpose was only as a lighthouse that would be shaped as a draped female figure and celebrate neither Independence or freedom."In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, where he pitched the idea of a massive statue {Not a lighthouse} gifted from the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence."
While for the US, the figure's purpose was only as a statue to celebrate American independence and freedom. In fact the sculptor's model for Lady Liberty was said to be his mother - who was neither Egyptian or Muslim.
Did those media idiots ever check the long history of the "Lady Liberty" figure in Western art. A simple Google search would not have been hard - if they didn't prefer the PC lie over the truth:
The Fake News Media would have people believe that a 19th Century European champion of the principles of liberty & freedom would sculptor a statue of a Egyptian/Muslim woman as a symbol of those principles for the US.
Maybe Egypt had more Christians back in the day as well. And working the fields. Coptic Christians.
Kind of funny seeing as that German magazine just had Trump lopping off her head - Trump is so cutting edge lol.
And our national motto was originally supposed to read “In Allah We Trust.” It’s true, I tell you.
The original concept of the statue was for the entrance of the Suez Canal. It wasn’t going to be a ‘Statue of Liberty’ (liberty not usually associated with either canals or Egypt), so a female figure, dressed like you see women dressed in Egypt, basically saying “Welcome to our new canal” makes sense. When the Suez project didn’t work out, the statue was refigured to represent Liberty. Liberty was never supposed to represent a Muslim woman, since Liberty is the opposite of submission, isn’t it.
DearGod, this has to be one of the stupidest bits from CBS. I can’t believe they are pushing it. The French originally planned to sell the statue to Egypt? Really?
By the way, I found this link to a blog published in 2015 which pushed this story. The story itself references another earlier blog from 2013 where they push the idea that the original Liberty was black.
I’d bet dollars to donuts CBS is eager enough in its Trump bashing to latch onto these two blog posts as “experts”.
https://urbanintellectuals.com/2015/11/20/the-original-statue-of-liberty-was-an-african-muslim/
Baloney!
Completely absurd.
Really...At that time, the French people .... I can’t even make up a joke.
She is meant to “light up the world.”. And she does.
They are going out of their way to lie even more. I see they learned their lesson. I hope they get down to zero viewership and shut down soon.
Just torch the head off of the statue. Problem solved.
What next? The American Eagle is really a transgender and underneath all those feathers is a robin? I remember when they did this with “Black” and “Gay” figures in history. This only proves that at the bottom of it all is that they are deeply, deeply envious and covet the American “thing”. As they are claiming they hate America, they at the same time keep claiming that they are the REAL creators of everything in it.
Islam isn’t a race. So just what is a “Muslim woman’’.
Like most big lies, this one has a tiny element of truth blended in.
The sculptor, Bartholdi, did propose a statue of an Egyptian peasant woman holding a torch for the entrance to Suez. That statue was never built; however, some structural ideas were reused in Liberty. The final statue presented to the United States was designed with entirely different features and meaning, and Lady Liberty inherited only basic mechanical support from the proposal for Egypt.
Really?? I’ve heard that originally CBS was meant to be a real news outlet
She was a goat?
The National Park Service issued a report in 2000 debunking the rumor that the original model for Lady Liberty was a black Egyptian woman (now subtly changed to a Muslim woman).