Whitey Ford
07-01-2023, 01:41 AM
Iraqis storm Swedish embassy as Muslim nations condemn Koran burning
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Iraqi protesters breached Sweden’s embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world.
A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stayed inside the compound for about 15 minutes, then left as security forces deployed.
“Our constitution is the Koran,” read a message on leaflets carried by the protesters, and a message sprayed on the compound’s gate said, “Yes, yes to the Koran”.
The protest came a day after an Iraqi citizen living in Sweden, Salwan Momika, 37, stomped on the Islamic holy book and set several pages alight in front of the capital’s largest mosque.
Swedish police had granted him a permit in line with free-speech protections, but authorities later also said they had opened an investigation over “agitation”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqis-storm-swedish-embassy-as-muslim-nations-condemn-koran-burning/ar-AA1ddZKG?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=b08b6b75082c455f8add92fda4862b9f&ei=10
https://i.imgur.com/bai9xy0.gif
Iraqi protesters breached Sweden’s embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world.
A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stayed inside the compound for about 15 minutes, then left as security forces deployed.
“Our constitution is the Koran,” read a message on leaflets carried by the protesters, and a message sprayed on the compound’s gate said, “Yes, yes to the Koran”.
The protest came a day after an Iraqi citizen living in Sweden, Salwan Momika, 37, stomped on the Islamic holy book and set several pages alight in front of the capital’s largest mosque.
Swedish police had granted him a permit in line with free-speech protections, but authorities later also said they had opened an investigation over “agitation”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqis-storm-swedish-embassy-as-muslim-nations-condemn-koran-burning/ar-AA1ddZKG?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=b08b6b75082c455f8add92fda4862b9f&ei=10