IQNA – Swedish officials persist in granting contentious permits for public protests that desecrate the Quran with one such protest planned for Friday ahead of a song contest in Malmo.
News ID: 3488183 Publish Date : 2024/05/02
IQNA – Globally-condemned anti-Islam figure Salwan Momika has been detained in Norway and is set to be expelled from the country despite earlier reports that claimed he was dead.
News ID: 3487813 Publish Date : 2024/04/05
IQNA – Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee who desecrated the Holy Quran several times in Sweden in the past months has been reportedly found dead in Norway.
News ID: 3487770 Publish Date : 2024/04/02
IQNA – A Swedish court has upheld the deportation order of an Iraqi man who desecrated the Holy Quran in public several times last year, according to local media reports.
News ID: 3487128 Publish Date : 2024/02/09
AMMAN (IQNA) - Sondos Sidawi, a 21-year-old Jordanian woman, sees her win in an international Quran memorization competition as a powerful message to those burning Islam’s holy book.
News ID: 3485325 Publish Date : 2023/09/26
GENEVA (IQNA) – The recent attacks against the Holy Quran will be discussed during a session at the UN Human Rights Council on October 6, UN rights chief Volker Turk said.
News ID: 3485133 Publish Date : 2023/09/11
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) – A new poll shows growing support for banning desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden as a security official acknowledged the damage inflicted to the country's image in the past few months.
News ID: 3484995 Publish Date : 2023/09/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Far-right forces have been given “far too much” space in both the media and politics in Sweden that has emboldened Islamophobes, said the 47-year-old woman who interrupted a recent incident of the Quran burning in Stockholm.
News ID: 3484931 Publish Date : 2023/08/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ambassadors to Britain called on governments to fight against Islamophobic acts amid recurring desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark.
News ID: 3484795 Publish Date : 2023/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Swedish professor rejected the ongoing acts of Quran desecration in Sweden and Denmark as “uncalled-for” provocations, noting that everyone should assume their responsibility towards the common good.
News ID: 3484778 Publish Date : 2023/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – International law is not strong enough to stop affronts to religious and holy sanctities, including the Holy Quran, a former UN special rapporteur said.
News ID: 3484743 Publish Date : 2023/08/13
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) - Sweden wants to strengthen its ties with Muslim countries, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Saturday amid global criticism over the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Nordic country.
News ID: 3484646 Publish Date : 2023/08/05
LONDON (IQNA) - Academics known for their work on religion, faith, and society in the UK described the recent desecrations of the Holy Quran in Sweden and Denmark as "extremist acts that must be prevented."
News ID: 3484644 Publish Date : 2023/08/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An American Islamic studies expert says that the recent Quran desecrations in Europe under the guise of freedom of expression are being encouraged by Western oligarchs and their foundations.
News ID: 3484626 Publish Date : 2023/08/06
BEIRUT (IQNA) - The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement urged Muslim nations to take a tough stance against recurring Quran desecrations in Sweden and Denmark, describing Islamic countries’ stance on the sacrilegious act as “disappointing” and "weak".
News ID: 3484605 Publish Date : 2023/08/01
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) - Sweden’s government has no plans to make sweeping changes to freedom of speech laws, the country’s prime minister said.
News ID: 3484604 Publish Date : 2023/08/01
ROME (IQNA) - Pope Francis denounced as “barbaric” the recent Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark, saying such blasphemous moves prevent dialog among nations.
News ID: 3484603 Publish Date : 2023/08/01
JEDDAH (IQNA) - Iraq’s foreign minister called Monday for the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to form a committee for talks with the European Union over its member countries permitting the desecration of the Holy Quran and to enlist volunteers to file lawsuits to halt the sacrilegious act.
News ID: 3484590 Publish Date : 2023/07/31
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) - Two men desecrated the Holy Quran outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday, an act of sacrilege similar to previous ones that have sparked tensions between Sweden and Muslim countries.
News ID: 3484589 Publish Date : 2023/07/31
STOCKHOLM (IQNA) - Swedish police granted a permit for a protest outside parliament on Monday in which the organizers plan to burn the Holy Quran, according to local media.
News ID: 3484588 Publish Date : 2023/07/31