The Statue of Liberty was based on the Roman goddess Libertas.
Notice the similarity?
Posted on 02/05/2017 9:19:11 AM PST by markomalley
Ten days ago President Trump announced a temporary ban on refugees from seven terror states.
The temporary block included travelers from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.
Liberals called this a “Muslim ban.”
The largest Muslim countries in the world were not included in the travel ban.
Now this… CBS and Yahoo carried this insane story.
The liberal media is now rewriting history to claim Trump’s temporary ban is anti-American because the Statue of Liberty was based on a Muslim woman!
Wow!
Rewriting the historical narrative to turn the Roman Goddess Libertas into a Muslim woman. You couldn't make this up. pic.twitter.com/ermPUjjoUK
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 5, 2017
Now the truth…
The Statue of Liberty was based on the Roman goddess Libertas.
Notice the similarity?
And notice that she is not covering her face or head?
The Statue of Liberty was NEVER based on a Muslim figure.
Only a crazy liberal would suggest such nonsense.
Unbelievable...
No she is wearing Sari, so she is Hindu.
The artist had previously proposed a large statue in Egypt that would have been Muslim. That one was never built. As the article states, our Statue of Liberty is no way based on a Muslim.
I saw this story earlier and was dumbfounded. Maybe it’s high time to make Drug Testing Mandatory for those engaged in “Commercial Speech” for profit or gain, especially Speech over the PUBLIC airwaves.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3521536/posts
CBS: Statue Of Liberty Was Originally Intended To Be A Muslim Woman
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Next will be, George Washington was son of Genghis Khan.
Obama said Muslims had something to do with the founding of our country.
Other than the Barbary pirates, WTF?
Leftists are the American version of ISIS. They blow up our history and rewrite reality based on their false ideology.
Most of MLK’s PhD thesis was plagiarized.
insane is the only appropriate word for this.
Some historical info on the Statue and its development over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
If Liberal progressives had protected 12 million assimilated Jews in the ‘30s the way they’re trying to protect one billion separatist muslims now, there would have been no Holocaust.
Cultural appropriation FAIL.
She is “Columbia”. Just Google image search for “Columbia Goddess”.
Just when you thought you had heard it all
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue 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, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.
I’m telling you. They think they answer to no one.
Some ####ing up of the insane left is gonna be needed before all this #### ends.
I can’t see a civil war unless NY and CA want to meet in the middle.
And I’m NOT fighting for NY!!
The National Guard needs to be called out for the next riot and beat these animals like baby seals.
If the Statue of Liberty were modeled after a Muslim she’d be a vaguely humanoid lumpen sack in a burqa holding a raised sword and a Koran.
Amazing....they are re-writing history. They will succeed too at this rate.
Just had a thought:
Is the reason the “p*ssy” liberals are so enamored with Muslims because they secretly want Sharia Law so they can subjugate the women they fear into second class people such as the Muslim laws do????
Do they fear women that much????
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