SMITHSONIAN: STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS ORIGINALLY A MUSLIM WOMAN:
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.
But the Smithsonian gets its knickers in a twist over the sight of a WWII B-29 and in 2013, published an excerpt from a since massively debunked biography of Norman Rockwell, which attempted to retcon the beloved American artist into, as his granddaughter wrote in response, “a repressed homosexual with pedophilic impulses,” so take the above story with a grain of salt. (As Cuffy tweets, “Last week called, wants its clickbait back.”)
I blame myself for this latest bit of clickbait. In early 2011, for the PJM homepage illustration accompanying an article by contributor Howard Rotberg titled “Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address,” I created the following image:
Shortly afterward, some organization calling itself “Shariah4America” issued a statement demanding a burkha on the Statue of Liberty. And now the Smithsonian gets into the act. Oh well — Photoshopped in haste, repented at leisure.
