Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby to be Forfeited
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#2Buy priceless artefacts from warzones and funding terror groups who steal them!
Hey Hobby Lobby, you should also build a conflict diamond collection. If you want to take a chance you could also get into human trafficking or organ smuggling.
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#3Real lovely group of humans over there at Hobby Lobby.
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#4Saw on Twitter that someone called them the "Wahhabi Lobby".
But actually, it seems ridiculous to me that this only warranted a $3m settlement. They've (almost certainly) been indirectly funding ISIS by robbing a country of its cultural artifacts. Not cool.
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#5When they start getting their hands on harleys and nukes from the orthos, call me. Happy to lend a hand.
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#6Saw on Twitter that someone called them the "Wahhabi Lobby". But actually, it seems ridiculous to me that this only warranted a $3m settlement. They've (almost certainly) been indirectly funding ISIS by robbing a country of its cultural artifacts. Not cool.
If I recall, they made these purchases in 2010. So just AQ linked Iraqi warlords (who you could probably bet on having joined ISIS).
Ironically, if these artifacts were from northern Iraq, where ISIS has had its main destructive presence, there's a good chance they would have been destroyed.
Still, gross to see a "Christian" company wanting to get items from the 'holy land' that have been totally plundered to build a bible museum.
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#7Saw on Twitter that someone called them the "Wahhabi Lobby". But actually, it seems ridiculous to me that this only warranted a $3m settlement. They've (almost certainly) been indirectly funding ISIS by robbing a country of its cultural artifacts. Not cool.
If I recall, they made these purchases in 2010. So just AQ linked Iraqi warlords (who you could probably bet on having joined ISIS). Ironically, if these artifacts were from northern Iraq, where ISIS has had its main destructive presence, there's a good chance they would have been destroyed. Still, gross to see a "Christian" company wanting to get items from the 'holy land' that have been totally plundered to build a…
Except that many of the artifacts that ISIS "destroys" are in fact sold: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-sta...
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#8Is it just me, or does Hobby Lobby seem to go out of their way to remind their customers that their values aren't the same as the customers? Seriously, they should go out of business.
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#9Hobby Lobby's robby hobby: Hammurabi
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#10Saw on Twitter that someone called them the "Wahhabi Lobby". But actually, it seems ridiculous to me that this only warranted a $3m settlement. They've (almost certainly) been indirectly funding ISIS by robbing a country of its cultural artifacts. Not cool.
If I recall, they made these purchases in 2010. So just AQ linked Iraqi warlords (who you could probably bet on having joined ISIS). Ironically, if these artifacts were from northern Iraq, where ISIS has had its main destructive presence, there's a good chance they would have been destroyed. Still, gross to see a "Christian" company wanting to get items from the 'holy land' that have been totally plundered to build a…
See also The Museum of Lost Objects which talks about some of the artifacts that have been destroyed.
Here's one about Abu al-Alaa al-Maarri.