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Police closed off the street past the Swedish embassy in Baghdad with concrete blocks today after one group of protesters managed to penetrate the embassy yesterday.

STOCKHOLM: A man set fire to several pages of the Holy Quran outside Stockholm’s main mosque Wednesday, after Swedish police granted a permit for the protest which coincided with the start of...

In front of a crowd of 200, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden several years ago, put bacon in the pages of a Koran before stomping on it and setting several pages alight yesterday.

A man set fire to pages of the Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque Wednesday, with Swedish police, who had granted a permit for the protest, saying he was being investigated for "agitation against an ethnic group."

Act committed after police granted permission for protest, draws criticism; mosque disappointed by police decision.

Iraqi refugee to Sweden torches holy book to express opposition to the text, highlight freedom of speech

This is democracy. It is in danger if they tell us we can't do this

Similar acts have in the past sparked violent protests and outrage across the Muslim world