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brooklynite

(93,857 posts)
Wed May 2, 2018, 04:49 PM May 2018

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 America’s favorite arts-and-crafts retailer.

Iraq’s 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

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U.S. returns smuggled Hobby Lobby artifacts to Iraq (Original Post) brooklynite May 2018 OP
Hmmm, these "Christians" may need to brush up on the Ten Commandments. lagomorph777 May 2018 #1
Same Hobby Lobby folks funded the new *Museum of the Bible* in DC appalachiablue May 2018 #2
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE, Wash. DC, Fall 2017 on the Mall, from Hobby Lobby. appalachiablue May 2018 #9
"Replica of the Liberty Bell" BumRushDaShow May 2018 #13
And it's only 139 miles away (google/maps) ... aggiesal May 2018 #19
Yup although it'll probably take a wee bit longer BumRushDaShow May 2018 #21
Mighty "christian" of them, don't you think? paleotn May 2018 #3
You mean a corrupted right-wing version of religiosity? Hortensis May 2018 #18
Christianity and the Bible honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and frau keithbvadu2 May 2018 #4
To be fair to Hobby Lobby, being the good christian organization justhanginon May 2018 #5
But don't forget, it isn't the sabbath at the same time around the world! erronis May 2018 #12
Good point! I hadn't thought of that but I'll bet their justhanginon May 2018 #15
Not only that not fooled May 2018 #17
Not going to that store anymore!! Talitha May 2018 #6
There's a lot of reasons not to go there. marble falls May 2018 #10
And no jail time for anyone. louis-t May 2018 #7
Not these holy hypocrites. Real Christians would be in jail. Jakes Progress May 2018 #8
Fuck HobbyLobby cp May 2018 #11
sounds like CRIMES to me. pansypoo53219 May 2018 #14
I'm glad Iraq is getting their history back. Shame on owners of sinkingfeeling May 2018 #16
Oh, but remember what Rumsfeld said louis-t May 2018 #20

appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
2. Same Hobby Lobby folks funded the new *Museum of the Bible* in DC
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:02 PM
May 2018

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)
9. MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE, Wash. DC, Fall 2017 on the Mall, from Hobby Lobby.
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:53 PM
May 2018

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)
21. Yup although it'll probably take a wee bit longer
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:11 AM
May 2018

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)
3. Mighty "christian" of them, don't you think?
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:13 PM
May 2018

Thieves and liars is more appropriate. That's what passes for religiosity in America these days.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. You mean a corrupted right-wing version of religiosity?
Thu May 3, 2018, 08:37 AM
May 2018

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)
4. Christianity and the Bible honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and frau
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:14 PM
May 2018

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)
5. To be fair to Hobby Lobby, being the good christian organization
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:17 PM
May 2018

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)
12. But don't forget, it isn't the sabbath at the same time around the world!
Wed May 2, 2018, 07:10 PM
May 2018

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)
15. Good point! I hadn't thought of that but I'll bet their
Wed May 2, 2018, 07:28 PM
May 2018

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)
17. Not only that
Thu May 3, 2018, 02:16 AM
May 2018

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)
6. Not going to that store anymore!!
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:28 PM
May 2018

Lots of other places around here... and they carry better quality stuff, too.
Thanks for the heads-up on this!!

Jakes Progress

(11,121 posts)
8. Not these holy hypocrites. Real Christians would be in jail.
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:49 PM
May 2018

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)
11. Fuck HobbyLobby
Wed May 2, 2018, 06:50 PM
May 2018

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.

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