(Local) The Iraqi activist Salwan Najem has applied for a permit to hold a Quran-burning protest outside Sweden’s parliament on Monday.
Najem, a 48-year-old man, accompanied the activist Salwan Momika during the Quran-burning protests Momika carried out outside a Stockholm mosque and outside the Iraqi embassy earlier this summer, filming his protests and posting them on social media.
“I’m going to carry on burning this until they ban the Quran,” Najem told the Expressen newspaper, after informing them of his plans. “What’s illegal about it? It’s just a bit of paper. Do you know how many threats we have received? Just because of a bit of paper.”
