Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered past sparked ...

In 2023, Momika set fire to a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, outside the Stockholm Central Mosque. He was later charged with "agitation against an ethnic group," on four occasions in the ...

In Sweden, too, where both Salwan Momika and another individual, the far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, repeatedly burned copies of the Quran, there have been mature responses from Muslims.

(CNN) — 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 ...

Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023.

Salwan Momika, 37, has staged several burnings and desecrations of the sacred book of Islam in Sweden over the past few years. “I am on my way to Norway,” Momika said in an interview published ...

Salwan Momika, 37, an Iraqi man, plans to seek asylum in Norway after facing a deportation order from Swedish authorities. Momika has been known for carrying out multiple Quran burnings in Sweden.

The organizers, Iraqi immigrants Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem, who are already facing criminal charges for inciting hatred over similar demonstrations previously, burned several pages from the ...

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — 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.

Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi man who staged several burnings and desecrations of the Quran in Sweden in 2023, has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm.

(CNN) — 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 ...