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 Qurans in ...

(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 ...

The ambulance and the police came.' He earlier said he was going to London to burn the book 'for Salwan Momika' and posted videos of him burning it and stuffing pages down a loo. Momika was killed ...

In an earlier post, he said that he was going to carry out a protest in memory of Salwan Momika, a Quran burner in Sweden, who was killed in Södertälje, Stockholm recently during a live broadcast on ...

The debate follows a recent case in Manchester where a man pleaded guilty to racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment or alarm after burning a Koran on social media. The defendant ...

Police have been accused of "enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Britain" after naming a man who burnt a Koran in Manchester on Saturday. A 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a "racially ...

Najem had been campaigning alongside Salwan Momika, who was involved in Quran-burning incidents. Momika was shot dead last week, on the same day he was due to receive a verdict in a separate case.

A Stockholm court convicted Salwan Najem of inciting ethnic hatred during four Quran burnings in 2023, just days after the murder of his co-defendant, Salwan Momika. Najem received a suspended ...

Salwan Momika, who set fire to an Islamic holy book in 2023, died in an apartment near the capital, Stockholm.