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A spate of Quran-burning protests in Sweden and Denmark has caused angry demonstrations in Muslim-majority countries, heightened security fears at home and left both Scandinavian nations ...
Quran-burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark may be a tiny phenomenon, but they have made leaders in northern Europe anxious. “We are currently in the most serious security situation since the ...
Iraq condemned the burning of a copy of the Koran in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday and said Danish staff at the embassy in Baghdad had left the country after protests there, while ...
A small group of nationalists in Denmark who filmed themselves burning what they said was a Quran, and at least two public desecrations of the Quran in Sweden, provoked assaults on the countries ...
Since then, Quran-burning incidents are increasing in Sweden and Denmark, causing these countries to rethink legal ways to prevent such protests. Unfortunately, not because they incite hate, but ...
Swedish evangelicals fear a human rights retreat, as the fallout continues from last month’s Quran burning.. Earlier this month, Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador after Swedish police ...
Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.
Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest at a planned burning of the Quran in Stockholm that had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set alight the Swedish embassy in Ba… ...
(RNS) — In 2010, Terry Jones, a pastor in Florida, went viral with a video of his burning the Quran as he called for an international “Burn the Quran Day,” to be held on each anniversary of ...
And for those who declare the burning of the Quran an act of free speech, I offer this quote from Mobashra Tazamal, Aug. 8, 2023 from the Bridge Initiative, Georgetown University: “Choosing to ...
The video showing the burning of the Islamic holy text was reported to MSU’s Office of Civil Rights, according to a university spokesperson, though they declined to say whether it was ...