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26/10/2023–|Last updated: 10/26/202310:12 PM (Mecca time)
Swedish television TV4 said on Thursday that the Swedish Migration Agency expelled an Iraqi who burned the Qur’an in Stockholm in the past few months and sparked widespread anger in Muslim countries.
The television quoted the agency as saying, “It decided to expel the person from… Sweden“, noting that as a result of the complications in implementing the decision, she granted him a limited residence permit for the period from October 25, 2023 to April 16, 2024.
The Iraqi refugee Silwan Mumika, residing in the capital, Stockholm, had previously burned a copy of the Holy Qur’an in front of the main mosque in Stockholm. He also held a demonstration in front of the Iraqi embassy in which he said he would burn a copy of the Qur’an, but he did not do so.
Mumika sparked a wave of anger in many countries in the Middle East and the Islamic world since he began organizing movements to burn the Qur’an last June.
Incidents of tearing up and burning copies of the Holy Qur’an by right-wing extremists in front of the embassies of Islamic countries have also occurred recently in Sweden and Denmark.
This was met with a series of protest movements, including protesters setting fire to the Swedish embassy building in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Several countries also summoned Sweden’s envoys to inform them of official protests, while they adopted United nations A resolution condemning all acts of attack on the Holy Books as a violation of international law.
