The court argued that the motive of the Quran-burning incidents "clearly exceeded the bounds of objective debate and criticism," Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper reported. The Quran ...

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".

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi man who staged several burnings and desecrations of the Quran in Sweden in 2023, has been ...

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 ...

Salwan Momika’s 2023 burning of Islam’s holy book drew ire in the Muslim world. He was killed just before he was set to ...

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

Police officers intervene after people's reaction as demonstrators burn the Holy Quran (not pictured) outside Stockholm's central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden June 28, 2023. — Reuters A Swedish ...