Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case ...

Momika said he wanted to protest against Islam as an institution and called for banning its holy book. He argued that he wanted to protect Sweden's population from the messages of the Quran.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a judge in Stockholm said Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.