Goddess Hera
Posted on 02/07/2017 9:05:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In times of such political turmoil in the United States, where thousands of citizens are against President Donald Trump's refugee travel ban and deem it targeting Muslims particularly, one intriguing trivia has surfaced about America's Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty -- America's symbol of freedom and acceptance of diversity -- could actually have been modelled on a Muslim woman, after all. This news is of significance considering Trump's executive order has banned people from at least seven Muslim-majority countries to enter into the United States, citing 'terrorism concerns.'
Reports state that the statue's designer, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was enamoured with Egyptian pyramids and monumental sculpture.
According to historian Edward Berenson, Bartholdi, in the 1860s, decided to build a monument to commemorate the opening of Egypt's Suez Canal.
"And that monument was going to be a woman in the southern opening of the canal holding up a torch over her head and that woman was dressed in Arab peasant garb," Berenson says. However, when the ruler of Egypt, Khedewi Ismail Pasha, went bankrupt, the structure was abandoned.
It wasn't until very long that the sculptor decided to make some alterations to his design, Brenson explains, "A couple of years earlier, Bartholdi and his friends decided they were going to give a gift to the United States that was going to celebrate the centennial of the American Revolution." It was then when the artists decided to reuse the sculptor and alter it to fit the American Revolution, PRI reported.
The result of that alteration was a woman, who was originally dressed in Arab garb transformed into a Greco-Roman goddess of liberty Libertas. The statue was a gift from the people of France to the United States and celebrated America's liberation, and served as a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from different nations to the country.
Today, the current American government's anti-immigrant stance has alarmed many nations abroad, and has caused uproar within American cities where many call the move unconstitutional and against the country's ideologies.
“This news is of significance...”
Uh, no it’s not.
As an illustrious former Secretary of State and twice-baked presidential candidate once said...”What difference, at this point, does it make?”
I’m convinced. France gave us a statue based on a Muslim woman so SHARIA for the U.S. /sarc
The fact is that most of these articles are some group like CAIR manipulating the media in the advancement of sharia in the US. They don’t want acceptance of the Muslim religion. They want the full Islamic society to be integrated into the US and eventually take it over.
The statue is not the point. It’s the statement “yearning to be free”. It doesn’t say “and those who hate us and want to cut off our heads and force all to be Muslims”.
I don’t see a mustache on her, so, no.
There’s no such thing as Muslim anatomy. There definitely are beautiful women from the Mid-East and some of them are Muslims. So what?
She’s based on the Roman goddess Libertas. All the info is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/search?q=statue%20liberty
Geez. The statue’s face was modeled after that of the sculptor’s (Fredric August Bartholdi) mother. Like him, she was French, and not a Muslim.
Just another case of revisionists trying to say something loud and long enough for it to become the truth.
Goddess Hera
I read a recent article showing photos of the stages for construction(in France) and reassembly(in the US) by the artist who created the Statue of Liberty.
Her profile is a dead ringer for Elvis. I kid you not.
http://twistedsifter.com/2013/05/rare-photos-of-the-statue-of-liberty-under-construction/
I think others have noted that as well.................Maybe Lisa Marie Presley.................
So they are trying to say that an Islamic Egypt was planning to allow a statue of a person,forbidden under Islamic faith, to be placed in front of one of the most incredible engineering feats of the earth? I doubt it.
So in my opinion, she isn't....
Or a lesbian
I had always read the model for Liberty was Bartholdi`s mother.
Yeah I saw that but without a Hitler mustache it’s just not quite enough hyperbole for me.
:)
You can tell the religion of a woman by her attire....yeah, if her face is covered by a burqua....
You can tell the religion of a woman by her attire....yeah, if her face is covered by a burka....
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