Subhead: "Lady Liberty was also originally meant to wear hijab." French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's statue was initially intended for Egypt's Suez Canal -- and was supposed to represent a liberated (Egyptian) female slave. As pointed out by The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly in an op-ed, the statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, the French designer of the statue, was inspired by Egyptian peasant women. More, and links: http://arynews.tv/en/americas-famed-statue-of-liberty-was-originally-a-musli... Ps. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Note that it DOES NOT say "Give me your hired al-Qaeda mercenary goatfuckers, the traitors who interpreted the screams of their tortured countrymen in some CACI-manned CIA owned dungeon" http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/07/us-army-hires-abu-ghraib-torture-compan...