Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

Sweden’s public broadcaster reported that ... The second defendant in the Quran-burning case posted a message Thursday on X that said: “I’m next.” The court had been scheduled to hand ...

His stunt was a response to a public burning of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, by a Christian Iraqi immigrant to Sweden earlier this month. “I never thought I would burn any books. I’m a ...

In October 2023, a Swedish court convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred with a 2020 Quran burning, the first time the country’s court system had tried the charge for desecrating Islam’s ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told ...

Most Swedes also disagree with the Quran burnings. More than half of the respondents to a recent poll by Sweden's public broadcaster SVT said they favor a ban on burning holy books such as the Quran.

As Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference on Wednesday, there can be no speculation about how this fully sanctioned Quran burning demonstration could affect Sweden's ...

Once again racists and extremists are allowed to abuse democracy and Freedom of Speech in order to normalize hate against one of the religious minorities in Sweden, by burning the Quran,” Amanah ...

Swedish court sentences anti-Islam activist to suspended sentence and a fine over Quran burning. Another activist who burned the Quran was shot dead last week.

TASS/. The organizer of the Quran-burning rallies, Salwan Momika, is leaving Sweden and will seek asylum in Norway, the Expressen newspaper reported. "I'm moving to a country that welcomes me and ...

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A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the ...