(JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the Swedish government to assume the cost of protecting the Jewish community. Senior officials of the organization, who visited Stockholm and Malmo ...
Momika’s actions contributed to a series of copycat protests in Denmark, where copies of the Quran were burned outside the embassies of several Muslim-majority countries.
Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi man who staged several burnings and desecrations of the Quran in Sweden in 2023, has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm.