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"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."

Foggy sculptor was interested in selling something. The bottom line trumps liberty.
Show Bartholdi the money,

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