Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. Credit: AP/Johan Nilsson. By The Associated PressUpdated January 30, 2025. Share. STOCKHOLM — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran ...

Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. Credit: AP/Johan Nilsson. By The Associated PressJanuary 31, 2025. Share. STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered ...

Salwan Momika, 37, an Iraqi man, plans to seek asylum in Norway after facing a deportation order from Swedish authorities. Momika has been known for carrying out multiple Quran burnings in Sweden.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi anti-Islam activist who burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking massive outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead in Sweden, the Associated Press reported on ...

Salwan Momika, a refugee from Iraq with political asylum in Sweden, faces being expelled back to the Islamic country for his demonstrations. Protestor Salwan Momika, who planned to burn a copy of ...

(CNN) — Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities.

Sweden convicts Quran burner, days after co-protester Salwan Momika’s assassination He was handed a suspended sentence, which in Sweden means that if he were to commit another crime during a two ...

Salwan Momika burned Qurans at a slew of protests, was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy ...

World Salwan Momika: Quran burnings for freedom or money? Despite sparking condemnation, affecting Sweden's image negatively, anti-Islamic firebrand continues desecrations of Muslim holy book ...

In Sweden, too, where both Salwan Momika and another individual, the far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, repeatedly burned copies of the Quran, there have been mature responses from Muslims.

Country officials said that Salwan Momika had committed a serious crime as the immigration authorities refused to extend the individual's stay in Sweden. After burning the Quran, he said "I am not ...