The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023. He had received death threats, his lawyer said. By Christina Anderson and Amelia Nierenberg ...
Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case ...
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 ...
Salwan Momika’s 2023 burning of Islam’s holy book drew ire in the Muslim world. He was killed just before he was set to ...
An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said ...
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The court argued that the motive of the Quran-burning incidents "clearly exceeded the bounds of objective debate and criticism," Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper reported. The Quran ...
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STOCKHOLM — 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 and ...