In 2014, Salwan Momika founded the Syriac Democratic Union and the Falcons of the Syriac Forces, ... it was attacked again on 19 July, leading Iraq to expel Sweden’s ambassador, ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests when he burned a Quran in 2023, has been killed, ... Later that summer, Momika again burned Qurans, according to the indictment.

While the details of Momika’s murder are still unclear, the episode (and continuing legal case against one his compatriots for antagonism of religious communities) again puts a spotlight on how ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee based in Sweden, targeted the Quran on Friday in the capital Stockholm in yet another desecration of the Muslim holy book. Momika, who was assisted by Salwan Najem ...

Momika, who had been facing legal charges over his controversial protests, has once again become the centre of a debate on free speech and religious sentiments. AFP reported, "A man who repeatedly ...

The two men, Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem, stomped on the Muslim holy book, set its pages ablaze before slamming it shut, as they did at a protest outside Stockholm's main mosque in June ...

Three men have been arrested in connection with a violent riot following a Quran burning in Sweden. Unrest erupted after an Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika set fire to a copy of the ...

Iraqi national Salwan Momika, who has made headlines over his repeated acts of desecrating the Quran, left Sweden early Wednesday and crossed into Norway, where he plans to apply for asylum. "I am ...

While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different ...