Najem's offending statements were made during four public events where Qurans were burned in Stockholm and led to public outrage within the Muslim community in Sweden and Islamic countries worldwide.

The man told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter that he is trying to spark debate and expose a double standard in the treatment of Muslims and Jews in Sweden. He also said he believed a provocative ...

Dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and any depiction of the prophet is strictly forbidden. Vilks, who has been a controversial artist for more than three decades in Sweden ...

MALMO, Sweden (JTA) — This city is not the best place to fly rainbow flags emblazoned with a Star of David. Its crime rate — among the highest in Scandinavia — and a large Muslim community ...

An anti-Islam protester who carried out several Quran burnings was shot dead in his apartment in Sweden, according to local media. Iraqi-born Salwan Momika, 38, who gained global notoriety for his ...

Protesters threw stones at police and burned tires in southern Sweden late on Friday, authorities said, hours after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Quran-burning ...

Why? One possibility that people are reluctant to talk about is Sweden’s growing population of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries with very different cultures from liberal Sweden.

An Iraqi anti-Islam activist holds a demonstration about the Quran on August 14, 2023. Quran burnings have also been happening in Denmark. But the extent of Sweden's freedom of expression laws ...

Muslim leaders in Sweden have also denounced the incident. In a televised speech to lawmakers in Pakistan's parliament the previous day, Sharif asked why Swedish police allowed the burning of the ...

Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji received Sweden’s Chargé D’affaires, Jorgen Lindstrom, on Monday to discuss ...