IQNA – When Salwan Momika, known for publicly desecrating the Quran in Sweden, entered a Christian shopkeeper’s store, he was met not with service but with rejection—the owner refused to sell to him ...

Charges against a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London have been altered amid a right-wing backlash Hamit Coskun, 50, set fire to the Quran outside the Turkish embassy, ...

(ANALYSIS) On Jan. 29, Salwan Momika was shot to death in the city of Södertälje, Sweden. He had been investigated by Swedish authorities and targeted by Islamist extremists since he publicly burned ...

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 ...

Salwan Momika, 38, was an Assyrian Catholic who fled to Sweden several years ago. In a horrific and targeted killing, an Iraqi refugee who burnt the Quran in Sweden was shot dead in his apartment on ...

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Salwan Najem, an Islam-critic whose fellow Quran-burning activist Salwan Momika was shot dead on January 29 in Stockholm, has been convicted of incitement against an ethnic group. According to the ...

A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes for staging public burnings of the Quran, in a ruling handed down five days after another man also being prosecuted over ...

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 the ...

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 ...

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 and desecrations of ...