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Home Front: Culture Wars
What a scoop! CBS News finds the Statue of Liberty was intended to be a Muslim woman, sort of
2017-02-05
That headline is quite a stretch. It might seem timely, but it’s not breaking news that French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi had at one time pitched the idea of a massive, draped sculpture holding a torch that would act as a lighthouse as the entrance to the Suez Canal.

That project obviously fell through, but Bartholdi held on to the idea and successfully re-pitched it -- hardly proof that the Statue of Liberty was "originally intended" to be a Muslim woman. It was a nice try, though.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#7  Would the Suez need a lighthouse? City on one end,pretty straight course. Seems unnecessary, no wonder they shot the idea down as stupid.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-05 13:47  

#6  Is that why the head was shipped in a separate box?
Posted by: Guillibaldo Stalin4227   2017-02-05 12:32  

#5  Wudn't the Suez Canal considered British, at the time? Morons.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-02-05 11:51  

#4  Fake News
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-02-05 10:18  

#3  No unibrow
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-05 08:11  

#2  Bare arm, no veil, no male relative; nope no muzzie there.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-05 08:06  

#1  she's holding a book of laws, not a F'n Koran.
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-05 07:24  

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