An Iraqi man who staged Quran burnings in Sweden was shot dead hours before he was set to receive a verdict on Thursday in a trial tied to the desecrations of Islam’s holy book that drew ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings ...

Its organizer, Iraqi migrant Salwan Momika ... His interpreter quoted him as saying: "We will burn the Quran, we will say: rise, Sweden. This is democracy and it is dangerous if they say that ...

Five men were arrested just hours after the Jan 29 shooting, but were all released two days later. Read more at ...

TASS/. The Iraqi government has officially informed Sweden that it will sever diplomatic relations with the kingdom if any Quran-burning protests occur again in Stockholm, the press service of the ...

Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, have been ...

An Iraqi anti-Islam activist holds a demonstration about the Quran on August 14, 2023. Quran burnings have also been happening in Denmark. But the extent of Sweden's freedom of expression laws ...

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The move was in response to the Swedish authorities granting permission to Salwan Momika, an Iraqi diaspora member in Sweden, to burn copies of the Holy Quran. Momika set copies of the Quran ...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Iraq's most powerful Sunni Arab political party on Monday said a U.S. soldier's desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, requires the "severest of punishments," not ...