Demonstrators in Stockholm in support of Ukraine, over 5,000 weapons handed in to police in northern Sweden and Quran-burner ...

In Sweden, a woman holding cross and bible publicly burned the Holy Quran.

Salwan Momika was shot to death in the city of Södertälje, Sweden. He had been investigated by Swedish authorities and ...

Freedom of religion means that religious beliefs, or irreligious ones, can be criticized, even mocked, as happens frequently ...

Momika, an immigrant from Iraq, had gained notoriety in recent years for lighting copies of the Quran aflame during public ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance called attention to deteriorating religious freedom and free-speech rights in Western liberal ...

The Stockholm district court stated that both Najem and Momika desecrated the Quran while making offensive remarks about Islam, its religious leaders, and mosque activities. According to Sweden ...

In August of that year, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Quran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".

A Stockholm court convicted Salwan Najem of inciting ethnic hatred during four Quran burnings in 2023 ... The burnings strained Sweden’s ties with Middle Eastern nations and raised its national ...

The two men were accused of desecrating the Quran, including by burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims, on two of the occasions outside a Stockholm mosque. The Swedish ...

A Swedish court on Monday found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty of hate crimes for organizing public burnings of the Quran after. Due to the Quran burnings and his disparaging remarks about Muslims in ...