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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8315467, member: 128351&quot;]For me, the fact that there may be inaccuracies and misquotes is irrelevant. What is essential is that the US will not be the accomplice of looters and destructors of archaeological sites, and take action against this. I wish the UK, which seems to be the biggest market place for illegally sold antiquities, followed this example. In the present circumstances, any piece of antiquity that could originate from countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestinian territories, Libya, Mali, Nigeria should be seriously controlled when entering the territory of our western nations, and allowed in only if there is undisputable evidence they are clean. Not doing it is tolerating antiquities looting and money laundering, even making a profit from this criminal activity through taxes, and some day our countries may be sued for this by the nations victims of this trafficking. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think buying stolen goods is considered a &quot;right of individuals&quot; in any civilized nation. </p><p><br /></p><p>About the islamists, the question is not so simple. There are islamists who very officially value their pre-islamic heritage and are proud of it, it is the case of the Iranian government for example. It is also the case of the Hamas authorities in the Gaza strip, who protect antiquities. They find a political interest in doing so because these antiquities are Cananaite, Philistian, pagan Greek and Roman, Christian... but not Jewish! And they say they are evidence this land did not exclusively belong to the Jews at any moment in history. All islamists are not ISIS or Talibans...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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