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Hobby Lobby forced to return 5,500 looted Iraqi artifacts

• Arts and crafts retail giant Hobby Lobby has gotten itself into the middle of another massive controversy — and this time, it appears unlikely they can rely on a friendly Supreme Court to bail them out.
• According to a statement on the Department of Justice’s website, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Bridget Rohde and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have reached a settlement with Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. for illegally purchasing over 5,500 Iraqi artifacts for $1.6 million. 
• The artifacts were likely looted from archaeological sites or museums in Iraq during the chaos of the country’s 14 years of U.S. occupation and civil war, and shipped to the U.S. with falsified labels designating them as tile “samples.”
• A massive black market in stolen archaeological and historical items has spawned in the wake of the United States’ 2003 overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s government. 
• Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq was looted as U.S. troops failed to secure key locations throughout the city. 
• More recently, the Islamic State have likely sold a fortune in looted antiquities amid its years-long rampage throughout Iraq and Syria, raising troubling questions about who looted the cuneiforms in the first place. Read more (7/6/17)

So there’s a possibility that someone from Hobby Lobby directly funded the Islamic State by purchasing these stolen artifacts. 

If you were fine with Hobby Lobby controlling what goes in and comes out of the vaginas of their employees and continued to shop there, at least stop shopping there now, or else you might be funding terrorism.

And if it seemed a bit weird that a company like that would even be in the market for Iraqi artifacts, the official explanation isn’t that reassuring either:

According to the New York Times, Hobby Lobby’s president, Steve Green, said the collection of artifacts from the biblical-era Fertile Crescent was “consistent with the company’s mission and passion for the Bible,” but added the company was “new to the world of acquiring these items, and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions process.”

Wait what how does hobby lobby control what goes in/out of their employees vaginas!?
What is going on with this store!? Some body please link me or something.

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