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Stockholm – Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, have been dismissed as suspects, a prosecutor said on March 21.
A Department of Homeland Security logo is seen inside a press conference room on May 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Department of ...
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 ...
Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan said the city will not punish people who are trying to support the homeless by giving them resources like water, but it would punish those who try to help set up ...
While Fremont Mayor Raj Salwan told KTVU that police won’t target outreach workers handing out food and clothing, the ordinance doesn’t specify what qualifies as "aiding, abetting or concealing." ...
The Stockholm district court was to have published its verdict against Momika and 50-year-old Salwan Najem the following day, but postponed it until Monday after Momika's killing. "There is a wide ...
Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fined 4,000 crowns ($358) over the Koran burnings and derogatory comments he made about Muslims in the 2023 ...
Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...
Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings received worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in ...
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. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...