Babylonian Torahs smuggled to Israel?

Iraq is bent out of shape because Babylonian Torahs may have been smuggled into Israel—where they belong.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry accused security companies working with the American military forces of attempting to smuggle out unique archeological artifacts, stating its concern that Babylonian-era Torah manuscripts were smuggled to Israel, the London-based daily Al-Hayyat reported.

Iraq is searching for over 9,400 artifacts that were lost or stolen since the start of the American-led invasion in May 2003.

Among these items are Babylonian-era Torah manuscripts taken by American forces. The US promised it would return the manuscripts in two years after their renovation, but there was “information pointing to the possibility that they had been smuggled to Israel,” Gen. (ret.) Widah Nas’rat of the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigations Department told Al-Hayyat.

I’m not seeing the problem here. There are, like, three Jews left in Iraq, all elderly, all near death’s door. What do Muslims want with our Torah? To put it on display to prove in their Jew-free country how tolerant they are of our religion?

I hope they are in Israel. That’s where a Babylonian-era Torah belongs—with the people who live by its teachings.