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The Statue of Liberty Was Born a Muslim

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Bartholdi originally planned for his statue to be a Muslim peasant woman guarding the approach to the Suez Canal. Instead, she stands in New York Harbor.

Michael Daly
Michael Daly 

Special Correspondent

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