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ISIS Threatens The US...Beheads Its Historic Statue Of Liberty

ISIS shared this photo of a beheaded Statue of Liberty holding a black flag and New York City up in flames with a caption: Coming Soon on its Twitter handle. What point are they trying to make?
The Statue of Liberty was a joint effort between France and the United States, intended to commemorate the lasting friendship between the peoples of the two nations. The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper, while Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the famed Eiffel Tower, designed the statue’s steel framework.
The Statue of Liberty was then given to the United States and erected atop an American-designed pedestal on a small island in Upper New York Bay, now known as Liberty Island, and dedicated by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. The Statue of Liberty remains an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy, as well as one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks. So cutting off its head and giving it a black flag to hold instead of the usual light in its hand as seen in the ISIS photo is disturbing...what do you think?

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