Was Statue Of Liberty Originally A Muslim ???

The Statue of Liberty was originally conceived as a Muslim peasant woman and was to have stood at the approach to the Suez Canal, a lantern in her upraised hand serving as both lighthouse and a symbol of progress.

But the sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi of France, proved unable to sell the idea to the khedive of Egypt, Ishma’il Pasha. Bartholdi remained determined to erect a colossus on the scale of the one in ancient Rhodes. He sailed to America with drawings of the Muslim woman transformed to the personification of Liberty.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/18/the-original-statue-of-liberty-was-muslim.html

Lucky us.

By the way, the Statue of Liberty is the personification of Demeter, not of Liberty. Here is a drawing by Thomas Jefferson showing Libertas (on the left), and she looks nothing like the SOL: