U.S. returns smuggled Hobby Lobby artifacts to Iraq
Source: Politico
The Republic of Iraq has finally taken possession of thousands of ancient artifacts illegally shipped to the U.S. by Hobby Lobby in an international smuggling operation more befitting an Indiana Jones villain than Americas favorite arts-and-crafts retailer.
Iraqs reclaiming of the antiquities comes roughly 10 months after the Oklahoma City-based chain settled a $3 million civil suit with the U.S. government for smuggling thousands of clay artifacts which originated in modern-day Iraq into the U.S. through the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The company used shipping labels that falsely described the artifacts as tile samples, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Top American immigration agents and diplomats visited the Washington home of the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. on Wednesday for an elaborate outdoor repatriation ceremony.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/02/hobby-lobby-iraq-antiquities-return-565633
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)appalachiablue
(41,053 posts)near the National Mall to promote Christianity. Like the smuggled artifacts from Iraq, some of the Bible Museum's objects have questionable origins/provenance, even acquisition through Ebay, if that's accurate. New 'standards' in museum curatorship!
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-know-about-hobby-lobby-president-backed-museum-of-the-bible-2017-7
appalachiablue
(41,053 posts)Website, Museum of the Bible: "Visit DC's Newest Museum!"
https://www.museumofthebible.org/
Replica of the Liberty Bell
"Homeschooling: A Bible Curriculum" Museum of the Bible:
https://www.museumofthebible.org/book/minutes/26
BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)Why go there when you can come here to Philly to see the "real thing"!
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)An easy 2 hour drive.
BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)given how I-95 gets, let alone the beltway (maybe 2 1/2 hours if you can evade the MD state police)!
(have done the trip more times than I can remember over 25 years)
paleotn
(17,781 posts)Thieves and liars is more appropriate. That's what passes for religiosity in America these days.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)After all, the Democratic Party of course includes a lot of people who consider themselves, or at least try to be, good Christians, good Jews, good Muslims, good Hindus, good Buddhists, etcetera.
keithbvadu2
(36,367 posts)Christian Retailer Hobby Lobby Stole Middle East History to Make a Bible Museum in Washington
http://www.newsweek.com/hobby-lobby-iraq-antiquities-evangelicals-632434
Christianity and the Bible honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and fraud.
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)that they profess to be they did not steal artifacts on sunday. They live by the saying, "Remember the sabbath and keep it holy".
erronis
(14,955 posts)Same as my frequent "don't drink until the sun goes over the yardarm".
Fortunately the filthy rich Hobby Lobby can start pillaging 24 hours a day, depending on where there CEO is yachting.
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)corporate lawyers filled them in. Of course the easiest and most proper thing to do is "Thou shalt not steal other peoples stuff on any day of the goddamn week". Didn't take a stone tablet from on high to to figure that little puppy out.
I am increasingly sick of all this phony christian bullshit they put out for the public but never seem to live by in private.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)but the virtuous white owners of HL were rescuing sacred artifacts from godless muslim brown people in the Middle East
Where have we heard this story before? The Crusades rings a bell.
Fckin hypocrites.
Talitha
(6,477 posts)Lots of other places around here... and they carry better quality stuff, too.
Thanks for the heads-up on this!!
marble falls
(56,358 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)I thought smuggling was a crime.
Jakes Progress
(11,121 posts)Now if they sheltered refugees like the Bible says to do, they would go to jail. If they marched to protest inequality as a Christian is called to do, they would be in lock up.
But if you steal, avoid doing your job, or bomb an abortion center, you get off free.
That's how the bible of trump says it should be.
cp
(6,543 posts)Also for their refusal to cover contraception for their employees, since they pretend they're "religious" not a business. You're one of the other, pal.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)Hobby Lobby.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)"Vases? Who needs a bunch of vases?"