Congressman Hangs Photo of Muslim State of Liberty in Office


congressman Luis Correa
Congressman Luis Correa

Democratic Congressman Luis Correa thinks the Statue of Liberty would be better if she was less Christian and less white-looking. So he hung a painting of a hijab-clad Lady Liberty in his office to address the discrepancy.

Rep. Correa (D-CA) said the image represents “a young Muslim lady who is trying very hard to be part of America, who is trying very hard to show people that she is an American”.

The artwork drew the ire of local campaigners We The People Rising who said: “He shouldn’t have anything religious in his office. … I would like to see our Congress people be right-down-the-line patriotic.”

Rep. Correa may not realise, but Lady Liberty was actually fashioned on an Egyptian woman in the 1850s. And guess what? She has no hijab.

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, the statue’s designer, visited Nubian monuments at Abu Simbel on what would one day become the banks of Lake Nasser, in 1855. He wanted the statue to be a “colossal goddess”, to stand at the Suez Canal while the nation’s leader at the time — Isma’il Pasha — was embarking on a programme of Europeanization. He even stated, in 1879: “My country is no longer in Africa; we are now part of Europe. It is therefore natural for us to abandon our former ways and to adopt a new system adapted to our social conditions”.

Make no mistake, Lady Liberty is not white. She’s green. But, according to the designer, if she did have a race, she would be Egyptian. So, if anything, Correa is erasing Egyptian history with this photo — someone should alert the Social Justice Warriors.

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Source: Breitbart



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