Mass protest in Baghdad follows Koran burning in Sweden
By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the S...
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By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the S...
By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the S...
By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the S...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on Friday to demand an end to diplomatic ties after a man set fire to a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm. Protesters carried portraits of Sadr and his father, also a prominent cleric, as well as Iraqi flags, and chanted, "Yes, yes to the Koran, Moqtada, Moqtada". People burned large rainbow-coloured flags representing the LGBT community after standing on them while verses from the Koran were recited in the background.
Dozens of Iraqis protested on Thursday in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after a man burned a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm.