had carried out several anti-Islam protests, prompting Sweden to reconsider its laws on burning religious texts. While police had initially permitted his protest under free-speech laws ...

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Followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr storm the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on July 20 to protest a Quran burning in Sweden. Many Swedes worry about the impact of the anti-Quran protests on the ...

Sweden's admittance to NATO is now in jeopardy after Swedish police issued a permit for a protest in which the burning of the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, was set alight.

Sweden’s ambassadors have been summoned in various countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar following a second event to desecrate Islam’s holy book was held in Stockholm.

A man stomped on a copy of the Quran but Swedish media reported no one saw him set fire to it at a protest in Stockholm. Here's what happened – and what could happen next. Iraq has ordered the Swedish ...

The prosecution of a man for burning a Quran "evokes the notion of blasphemy", a legal expert has said. Human rights lawyer ...

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A similar protest demonstration was held ... Muslims around the world were celebrating Eid al-Adha, one of Islam’s major religious holidays. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said later that the ...

Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador in protest at a planned burning of the Quran in Stockholm that has prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set alight the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. An ...

A CNN investigation has revealed that Iran is allegedly using criminal gangs in Sweden to target Israeli and Jewish interests ...