(AFP) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday said they had asked a Stockholm court to remand in custody a 51-year-old woman suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria. The woman, who has been active in the Islamic State […]
(Yle) Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (NCP) on Sunday said there was no indication that Palestinian extremist group Hamas had planned to carry out a terrorist attack in Finland. Valtonen’s comments to Finnish news agency STT followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
(Reuters) Israel accused Hamas on Saturday of planning to attack its embassy in Sweden as part of an expansion by the Palestinian Islamist militant group into Europe, where authorities announced the arrests of several suspects last month. In a statement following up […]
(Times of Israel) Hamas runs a network of operatives in Europe commanded by terror leaders in Lebanon, Israel said Saturday as its intelligence agencies released new details on the Gaza-based organization’s attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. Most of the […]
(AFP) A former Syrian army general will appear before a Stockholm court over his alleged role in war crimes committed in Syria in 2012, according to the indictment seen Wednesday by AFP. Mohammed Hamo, 65, who lives in Sweden, is accused of […]
(Reuters) The terrorist threat level against Sweden remains high, security police said on Sunday. The Swedish Security Service said in a statement its assessment of the terrorist threat against the Nordic country remained at level 4 on a 5-degree scale, to which […]
(European Conservative) Swedish authorities have shut down a school in Stockholm after the Swedish security police Säpo produced evidence that the students attending the school were at risk of becoming radicalised as several staff members have ties to jihadism. The Swedish Schools […]
(AP) A new law was passed in Denmark’s parliament on Thursday that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country, after a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists sparked angry demonstrations […]
(Local) Russian intelligence last year suggested staging Quran burnings, as well as mounting protests and spraying graffiti insulting Turkey’s president, as a way of delaying Turkey’s ratification [of] Sweden’s Nato bid, a Finnish documentary has claimed. The documentary cites the Dossier Center, […]
(Yle) Russia made plans to disrupt Finland and Sweden’s accession to joining Nato, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by an Yle MOT investigation. The report found that a Russian intelligence service planned to organise disruption campaigns disguised as demonstrations before […]
(AFP) Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson denounced the leader of the far-right party propping up his government Monday after he called for some mosques to be torn down. Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie Akesson called for some mosques to be seized and […]
(Anadolu) A far-right Swedish politician proposing blocking new mosques and demolishing existing ones could undermine the country’s NATO hopes, warned a former Swedish diplomat on Sunday. Jimmie Akesson, leader of the country’s far-right Sweden Democrats, on Saturday proposed a ban on the […]
(Anadolu) The leader of a far-right party in Sweden on Saturday proposed a ban on the construction of new mosques and suggested the destruction of existing ones. Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson, who supports Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s coalition government in Sweden, […]
(Jerusalem Post) Antisemitic incidents have been on the rise in schools in Malmo, Sweden, despite the city’s ongoing efforts to combat hatred against Jews. Offensive chants and graffiti have resurfaced, causing concern. Malmo had been making progress in addressing antisemitism until the […]
(EUobserver) Sweden has called for an EU immigration crackdown to stop terrorism, with a right-wing slant on Muslims that risks sharpening division. EU ministers should discuss in December how to prevent attacks such as the killing of two Swedish football fans by […]
(AP) Sweden reportedly withdrew the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of public desecrations of the Quran this year but put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iraq. […]
(Euractiv) According to an investigation, leisure centres, preschools, and social services are among the places where former ISIS jihadists are now working, prompting Liberal Education Minister Lotta Edholm to call Sweden’s policy on the return and control of former Swedish Islamist fighters […]
(Politico) Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks. […]
(AP) The alleged attacker who killed two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels this week before he was shot dead by police was residing in Belgium illegally and should have left the country three years ago, but never did. In a country that […]
(Reuters) The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union’s chief executive promised on Wednesday to tighten border security and step up repatriations after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels. They spoke after […]
(AP) The killing of two Swedish citizens in an attack ahead of a soccer match in Brussels has shocked the Scandinavian country, although the government has been warning for months that Swedes were at greater risk since a recent string of public […]
(AP) Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack […]
(Reuters) Two Swedish nationals were shot to death and a third person was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The suspected […]
(Local) A Swedish court has found a man guilty of agitation against an ethnic group after he, among other things, lit the Quran on fire in a video featuring music associated with white-power terrorism. It comes after a spate of Quran burnings […]
(Middle East Eye) Muslim civil society groups from Europe warned of the growing level of Islamophobia spreading across the continent at a major security and human rights conference in Poland. On Thursday, seven Muslim groups from Austria, France, Sweden, Spain, and the […]
(AFP) German prosecutors Wednesday charged two Syrian brothers with allegedly planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State jihadist group at a church in Sweden over Koran burning incidents in the country. The two brothers, identified only as 29-year-old An. K. and […]
(European Conservative) A Swedish man faces trial this week on charges of incitement to racial hatred for the burning of a copy of the Islamic Quran in what could become a precedent-setting case, as prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue charges against […]
(AP) A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 4 1/2-year prison sentence for a Turkish man who was found guilty of attempted extortion, weapons possession and attempted terrorist financing, saying he was acting on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party. […]
(AFP) Muslim leaders addressing the United Nations on Tuesday berated the West over burnings of the Koran, denouncing the acts protected as free speech as discriminatory. Sweden has seen a series of burnings of the Islamic holy book, with the government voicing […]
(AFP) Baghdad has asked Sweden to extradite Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who stoked international outrage by desecrating the Koran, he and his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday. “Iraq wants him extradited because he burnt a Koran outside the mosque (in Stockholm) in […]
(European Conservative) After her art exhibition was shut down over safety concerns by a Swedish cultural centre, artist Sadaf Ahmadi has been invited to Brussels by Sweden Democrats (SD) MEP Charlie Weimers to display her sculptures of women wearing the Islamic chador. […]
(AP) Clashes erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in Sweden’s third largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran, police said Monday. Police in Malmo said they were pelted with rocks and dozens of cars were set […]
(AFP) Swedish police on Sunday arrested two people and detained around 10 people after a violent riot broke out at a protest involving a burning of the Koran, police said. The protest was organised by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, whose protests — […]
(National-UAE) Sweden’s counter-terrorism chief warned on Thursday that the country will have to live with a changed image abroad after the repeated burning of the Quran in Stockholm. The country was warned that security threats are likely to remain high for some […]
(Anadolu) Swedes who want a ban to be introduced for burning the Quran and other holy books have increased to 53%, two points higher than the previous poll. The latest survey was conducted by the Swedish opinion poll company SIFO. Some 37% […]
(Local) Individual actors supported by Russia and Iran are leading an extensive disinformation campaign against Sweden, according to the Psychological Defence Agency which has now been tasked with tackling disinformation on Quran burnings in the country. Influence campaigns against Sweden have escalated […]
(Anadolu) Deeply moved by the Quran burning in Sweden, Pakistani national Malik Shahza has called for an end to such recurrent acts of desecration of Islam’s holy book in the European country recently. Shahza, a cardiac patient who has undergone bypass surgery, […]
(Anadolu) The Swedish prime minister on Friday voiced respect for Denmark’s step toward criminalizing the public desecration of religious scriptures. “I have great respect for what Denmark is doing,” Ulf Kristersson said in a news conference, according to local media. He added […]
(Prague Monitor) Sweden’s prospective entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is uncertain due to concerns arising from incidents of Quran burning, as highlighted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his return from Hungary. Erdogan’s remarks underscore a potential hurdle […]
(Local) Salwan Momika, the man behind a spate of recent Quran burnings that sparked diplomatic conflict and caused Sweden to raise its terror threat level, was assaulted on Monday, reports Aftonbladet. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that Momika was attacked in the city […]
(Brussels Times) The Swedish government published on Friday the directives for an inquiry to review the Public Order Act and the possibility to limit public gatherings and demonstrations that might pose a threat to its security. The directives were first announced in […]
(AP) Swedish police detained a woman Friday who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm. Video of the scene showed the woman rushing up to Salwan Momika and spraying […]
(Local) Sweden’s government on Friday launched an inquiry into changing the Public Order Act to make it possible to stop protests, such as Quran burnings, if they represent a security threat. The inquiry comes after Sweden’s appeals court ruled in June that […]
(Reuters) Sweden raised its terrorist alert to the second highest level on Thursday, saying it had thwarted attacks after Koran burnings and other acts against Islam’s holiest text outraged Muslims and triggered threats from jihadists. Anti-Islam activists have damaged several copies of […]
(Al-Jazeera) A copy of the Quran has been desecrated in Sweden’s capital as two men kicked the Muslim holy book and burned several of its pages in front of the Royal Palace amid a heavy police presence. Monday’s incident marked the second […]
(AP) A senior Swedish official said Monday Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following recent Quran burnings in the country and protests in the Muslim world. Henrik Landerholm, Sweden’s national security adviser, said there are […]
(Reuters) Britain on Sunday warned citizens going to Sweden of possible terrorist attacks following Koran burnings by anti-Islam activists that have outraged Muslims. In updated travel advice, Britain’s foreign ministry said Swedish authorities had successfully disrupted some planned attacks and made arrests. […]
(Deutsche Welle) Husam El Gomati scrolls through his phone and points at a long post in Arabic. “Mohammad Ahmad Ali, the most typical name, with some funny picture,” he notes. Scrolling through the post, El Gomati confirms what he expected: “Yeah, you’re […]
(Anadolu) The European Union will continue talks with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to “promote tolerance and mutual respect” after a series of recent Quran burnings in northern countries of the bloc, an official said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at […]
(AFP) Sweden’s government said Tuesday it intended to “intensify” border controls due to a worsened security situation in the wake of several protests involving desecrations of the Koran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and Muslim countries following several protests involving public desecrations […]
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