The resolution urged the government to summon the Ambassadors of Sweden and the Netherlands and convey the strong sentiments, shock and anger felt by the people of Pakistan against the desecration of ...

We asked people in 35 countries about the influence of specific religious texts on their national laws. The texts in question varied by country: For example, adults in predominantly Christian ...

In October, Mr Erdogan sent Sweden's Nato bid to Turkey's Parliament for consideration. But he has said Washington was linking the F-16s ratification with that of Sweden.

Egypt strongly condemned on Tuesday the tearing of a part of a copy of the Quran by a leader of an extremist movement in the Netherlands, warning that the action fuels hate speech ...

Over the past months, copies of the Quran have been repeatedly desecrated by anti-Islam individuals or groups in countries including Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, sparking outrage and ...

Attacks against the Quran in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands Rasmus Paludan, a Danish far-right politician and leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, continued provocations by burning the ...

A counterdemonstrator extinguishes a Quran on fire outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm, Aug. 18, 2023. A woman with a fire extinguisher raced toward the man who set fire to a Quran outside ...

Leader of the Dutch chapter of the far-right 'Pegida' group Edwin Wagensveld tears pages from the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in The Hague, Netherlands on August 19, 2023. (AFP) ...

The Quran burnings have sparked protests in Muslim countries, attacks on Swedish diplomatic missions and threats. Sweden on Thursday raised its terrorism alert to the second highest level, saying ...

Sweden on Thursday raised its terrorism alert level one notch to the second-highest setting, following recent Quran burnings in the Scandinavian country by a handful of anti-Islam activists, which ...

Sweden does not have a law specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Quran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, it doesn’t have any blasphemy laws; Sweden’s were ...

Muslims coming from Friday prayer watch the Quran being burnt on the opposite street from the mosque on July 28, 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Six Quran burnings were planned to be held in ...