Sweden arrests 15 people trying to prevent Quran desecration
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ANKARA SEP 03, 2023 – DAILY SABAH Protestor Salwan Momika is escorted by police to a location in Stockholm, Sweden, July 20, 2023. (Reuters Photo) At least 15 […]
More Swedes favor ban on Quran burnings as country’s image damaged
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL AUG 31, 2023 – DAILY SABAH Salwan Momika prepares to desecrate the Muslim holy book Quran, outside a mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, June 28, 2023. (AFP File […]
Sweden considers allowing police to stop desecration of Holy Quran
Reuters Published August 19, 2023 dawn.com STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s government is considering changing the Public Order Act to make it possible for police to deny permission for acts such as desecrating the Holy […]
Swedish police try to silence man protesting desecration of Holy Quran
Anadolu Agency Published August 25, 2023 Updated about 2 hours ago dawn.com Plainclothes police attempted on Thursday to silence a man who was protesting against Iraqi-born refugee Salwan Momika’s desecration of the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Police intervened as Kais Tunisia was loudly responding to Momika’s words while desecrating the Holy […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community holds nationwide Holy Quran awareness campaign in Sweden
18th August 2023 Kashif Virk, Missionary, Sweden In response to the burning of copies of the Holy Quran in Sweden, the Ahmadiyya mission in Sweden held stalls all over the […]
Sweden ups terror alert after countless Quran desecrations
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL AUG 17, 2023 From left, Sweden’s Security Police Chief Charlotte von Essen, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer and National Police Commissioner Anders […]
Burning Issue Finally Addressed By UN
Ayesha Mahmood Malik – UKFEATURED 13th August 2023 For many years now there has been an ongoing debate, particularly in Western societies, as to whether the burning of religious literature […]
Quran burning: A prelude to Muslim Holocaust?
Experts warn that burning of books was the beginning of the two of the deadliest genocides in 20th century Europe targeting Jews and Bosnian Muslims. KUBRA SOLMAZ We are no […]
British academics slam Quran desecrations as ‘extremist acts’
BY ANADOLU AGENCY LONDON AUG 04, 2023 – DAILY SABAH Police stand guard as a man (not in the picture) prepares to burn a copy of the Quran in Stockholm, Sweden, […]
How European far-right desecrates Quran to galvanise hatred against Muslims
Europe’s far right has been torching copies of Islam’s holiest book for years. Here’s how the tactic works to normalise xenophobic discourse across European society. SAAD HASAN In the 1980s, […]
Desecration of Quran: A burning question of freedom
BY YUSUF ZIYA DURMUŞ JUL 31, 2023 – DAILY SABAH “Burning a holy book like Quran in public is nothing but a display of hatred and incitement of hatred among […]
Pope Francis condemns recent Qur’an burnings as ‘barbaric’
Pope Francis has denounced as “barbaric” the recent Qur’an burnings in Sweden and Denmark, saying such blasphemous moves prevent dialog among nations. AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The pontiff made the remarks […]
Western attacks on Islam will backfire
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN AUG 02, 2023 – DAILY SABAH Yemenis participate in a protest denouncing the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in Sweden and Denmark, in Sanaa, Yemen, […]
Sweden re-examining residency permit of Iraqi refugee who burned Qur’an copy
Momika, who threatened to burn a copy of the Qur’an and the Iraqi flag, was escorted by police to a location outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm on July 20. […]
A peak of Stupidity …
New wave of applications pour in to burn religious books in Sweden BY DAILY SABAH WITH AP STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN JUL 27, 2023 Kashmiri Muslims protest as they take part in a […]
Book burning must be banished from political discourse
YOSSI MEKELBERG July 26, 2023 Short Urlhttps://arab.news/9z3pzThere is something frighteningly true in the observation of the 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine, which was prompted by a burning of the Qur’an […]
Rise of Islam in Europe and its consequences
By Ali Karbalaei July 24, 2023 – 23:31 Far-rightists demonize Islam to advance their agenda TEHRAN – According to the Pew Research Center, Islam is the fastest growing religion in […]
Copies of Qur’an burnt in front of Egyptian, Turkish embassies in Denmark
UPDATE Muslim communities across the world condemed the burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark as an attack on the Quran. (File/AFP) COPENHAGEN: A small group of anti-Islam activists set fire […]
Sweden is risking its ties with Muslim countries, warns leading Saudi analyst
Hypocrisy of the Freedom of Expression DUBAI: If the Swedish government does not change its laws regarding the spread of hate, the Organization of Islamic Conference will act, Saudi geopolitical analyst […]
What Islam says about responding to haters
MAGAZINE6 MONTHS AGO As Europe is plagued by anti-Muslim hatred and acts of Quran-burning aren’t punished by law, we spoke to Islamic scholars about what Islam says about tackling hatred. […]