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Smithsonian: Statue of Liberty was originally a Muslim woman
The Hill ^
| 11/25/15
| Bradford Richardson
Posted on 11/25/2015 4:44:15 PM PST by markomalley
The Statue of Liberty was originally designed to be a Muslim woman, the Smithsonian Institution's magazine says.
An article on the government-administered museum’s blog, Smart News, claims one of the designers of Lady Liberty drew inspiration from monuments in Egypt and originally intended to construct a veiled female peasant on the Suez Canal.
The article cites historian Barry Moreno, author of multiple books about the statue, whose Islamic origins were also reported last week by
The Daily Beast.
“Taking the form of a veiled peasant woman, the statue was to stand 86 feet high, and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet,” Moreno writes in “The Statue of Liberty.”
The design of the project was eventually altered to the Roman colossus who shines the light of liberty from New York harbor today.
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To: markomalley
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11/25/2015 4:46:11 PM PST
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jimpick
To: jimpick
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:46:56 PM PST
by
WENDLE
(Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
To: markomalley
I don’t believe either explanation is correct.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:47:05 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: jimpick
and Obama is a Christian!
(representing American culture and heritage)
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:48:49 PM PST
by
himno hero
(hadnuff)
To: markomalley
All of America’s institutions have been corrupted by leftists.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:48:52 PM PST
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
To: markomalley
Sounds like a load of BS to me. Why would France build a statue of a veiled Muslim woman?
Maybe she was originally supposed to be a Mexican woman.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:48:56 PM PST
by
euram
To: markomalley
I am so sick of muslim-mania. To have a single button I could push to vaporize every one of them on earth my finger longs to push it.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:49:04 PM PST
by
W.
(Make that rubble bounce!)
To: markomalley
Just one more stab at being PC...
This does get old.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:49:29 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
To: jimpick
How do they know the woman wasn’t Coptic? They don’t, of course.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:50:05 PM PST
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: markomalley
omg....Obama’s govt. will stop at NOTHING to RUIN our history.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:50:06 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: markomalley
Satire, right?
The statue was designed after the female human personification of...France.
“Marianne” was the name.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:50:18 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: WENDLE
And he wrote his revised version due to an executive order??
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:50:49 PM PST
by
holyscroller
( Without God, America is one nation under)
To: markomalley
The Statue of Liberty was originally a lady truck driver from Quincy, Massachusetts.
I know this because the original designer was friends with one of the grandfathers of the barber who cuts my neighbor’s hair.
See, anybody can play this game.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:51:30 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: markomalley
Uh, Syria is NOT Egypt. Let’s move on....
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:51:37 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: markomalley
Wikipedia says that Bartholdi’s idea for a statue in Egypt was intended to represent an ANCIENT Egyptian peasant woman.
France, after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, developed a mania for ancient Egypt. There were no Muslims in ANCIENT Egypt.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:51:50 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
To: UCANSEE2
He11 no. If she was supposed to be a muzzie she'd have a full length black garbage bag on instead of the gown she's wearing.
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11/25/2015 4:52:07 PM PST
by
skimbell
To: markomalley
Oh Man, my grade school teachers were wrong again. They say she was modeled after the goddess Columbia.
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:52:18 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: markomalley
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posted on
11/25/2015 4:52:59 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: ClearCase_guy
[ Wikipedia says that Bartholdi’s idea for a statue in Egypt was intended to represent an ANCIENT Egyptian peasant woman.
France, after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, developed a mania for ancient Egypt. There were no Muslims in ANCIENT Egypt. ]
Unless you ask damned near ANY Muslim who will claim that Mooselimbs pre-date the Ancient Egyptians with their revisionist jihadi history.
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11/25/2015 4:53:53 PM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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