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 ...

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

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

A Swedish man who publicly desecrated and burned copies of the Quran has been found guilty of hate crimes, days after another man facing the same charges was killed. Salwan Najem was convicted by ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan nationals to several years in prison for plotting an attack on the Swedish parliament ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan men to several years in prison for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament and ...

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Counter-demonstrators and a large police force on site at Gustav Adolfs torg in Malmö, Sweden, at a public gathering where the organizer intended to burn a Quran. May 3, 2024. (Johan Nilsson/TT News ...

A Swedish court sentenced an anti-Islam activist to a suspended sentence and a fine on Monday after finding him guilty of hate crimes, Deutsche Welle reported. Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen ...

Momika, an immigrant from Iraq, had gained notoriety in recent years for lighting copies of the Quran aflame during public demonstrations against Islam. Late last month he stepped onto his balcony and ...

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 ...