UPDATED: June 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM PDT FREMONT — Mayor Raj Salwan said Fremont’ s future is “filled with hope,” during his first State of the City address this week.

His supporters have urged him to be careful. Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, who burned a Koran in public in 2023, was shot dead in January at his home in Stockholm.

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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.

Vance discussed the conviction of Swedish citizen Salwan Najem, an immigrant from Iraq, for participating in a Qur’an burning. His friend, Salwan Momika, was murdered for participating in the ...

Vance discussed the conviction of Swedish citizen Salwan Najem, an immigrant from Iraq, for participating in a Quran burning. His friend, Salwan Momika, was murdered for participating in the burning.

Christian man Salwan Momika was murdered on his live stream last night because he criticised Islam. The most sensitive people on earth killed him because he hurt their feelings.

Salwan Momika, 38, was an Assyrian Catholic who fled to Sweden several years ago. Back in 2023, he arranged for several burnings of Islam's scripture and videoed them in open protest of how this book ...

Police investigating Sweden's worst mass shooting were still trying to establish a motive as to why a lone gunman opened fire at an education campus in the southern city of Orebro, killing 10 people.

The verdict came just days after the man's co-defendant Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi Christian, was shot dead late Wednesday in an apartment southwest of Stockholm. The Stockholm district court ...

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.