Five centuries after the Pope ordered the public burning of Martin Luther’s books, book burning is still being used as political performance. Unlike the papal attacks on Luther, however, or the Nazi ...

Salwan Momika was killed by unknown assailants in the apartment he was staying in. Photo: Fredrik Persson/TT. Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned ...

On January 29, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden who had gained notoriety by publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead in his apartment in Stockholm. The killing took place in ...

While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Days after the killing of Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika, far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan was spotted buring a copy of the Quran. The controversial politician was ...

He had originally been charged together with another activist, Salwan Momika. But the charges against Momika, the more high-profile of the pair, were dropped last week after he was shot dead in his ...

Momika was first noticed when he first burnt the Quran and then repeated his act several times. He was widely criticized and received many death threats. Muslim woman burns the Quran amid Salwan ...

Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case against fellow campaigner Salwan Momika, who was shot and killed last week.

The ruling comes less than a week after Najem’s fellow campaigner, Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, was shot dead in an apartment right before he was due to receive his verdict in a parallel case.

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 ...