New Delhi: In 2023, Iraqi activist Salwan Momika sparked global outrage by desecrating the Quran in front of a mosque in Stockholm on the first day of Eid ul-Adha. He tore pages from the book ...

Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several ...

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 ...

Najem had been campaigning alongside Salwan Momika, who was involved in Quran-burning incidents. Momika was shot dead last week, on the same day he was due to receive a verdict in a separate case.

The verdict came just days after the man's co-defendant Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi Christian ... The two men were accused of desecrating the Quran, including by burning it, while making ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi activist who carried out four Quran-burnings in 2023, was shot dead in his apartment on Wednesday. a day before a court was due to rule on whether he was guilty of hate crimes ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — 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 ...