An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several Muslim nations, leading to riots and unrest in many places. The Stockholm District Court said a verdict scheduled Thursday in a trial in which Momika was a defendant was postponed because one of the defendants had died. A judge at the court, Göran Lundahl, confirmed that the deceased was Momika. He said he didn’t have any information on when or how Momika died. Police said they were alerted to a shooting Wednesday night at an apartment building in Sodertalje, near Stockholm, and found a man with gunshot wounds who later died. https://apnews.com/article/sweden-quran-burnings-salwan-momika-dead-shooting-e2b7cac606d28b91ae44a9027076aa56 January 30, 2025 The latest news is that police have arrested 5 individuals and say they are not ruling out the possibility that the killing could be linked to a foreign power. (Some might remember after the publication of The Satanic Verses in France, Iran promised a bounty for the killing of the individuals connected to the book's publication. One of the book's translators was even killed in Japan) Salwan Momika, Iraqi man who burned Quran in Sweden, killed in shooting Al Jazeera, January 30, 2025 Five people arrested over murder as the Swedish prime minister said the shooting could be linked to a foreign power. Police announced on Thursday that they had made five arrests in connection with the murder of 38-year-old Salwan Momika, who was reportedly shot in a house in the town of Sodertalje near Stockholm the previous day. Salwan Momika and co-defendant Salwan Najem had been criminally accused of "agitation against an ethnic or national group", and the Stockholm District Court was set to rule on Thursday whether they were guilty. So it looks like Swedish authorities were trying to punish him for the Quran burnings, but one of the angry Muslims got to him first. It looks like that law was passed in 2018, and carries a maximum prison sentence of 2 years. (Chapter 16 Section 8 )
That was unfortunately a while ago already, I followed him on X, very brave man, he propably knew he was going to die for that. The point is, in the woke MSM you will have an outburst that he burnt the Quran, but you dont have an outburst if Islamists brutally murder someone. He just proved his point, in my opinion he was just right, Islam is just straight evil.
How about the fact that the governments of many of these countries in Europe have given in and are trying to appease the muslims by criminalizing any speech or symbolic acts that are offensive them? These societies are basically admitting that there's no way to maintain the peace or be able to continue the right to freedom of expression, because it would just rile up too much discord - and in fact murderous frenzy - from the hoards of foreigners they have let in. The governments of Europe are accommodating Islam by implementing "blasphemy" laws over their entire populations, similar to the ones that exist in Muslim parts of the world. Go back in time 50 years, and we all know the progressives on the Left would have SCREAMED if these sorts of protections had existed for Christianity. So clearly some double standards and hypocrisy, comparing different points in history. It's almost a relief (in some sense) that this man was shot dead in a criminal act, because that puts an end to the government prosecution of him, and now of course the murderer will be punished, if the authorities can find him. But bad because it looks like the fundamentalist muslims have succeeded in imposing their rule of terror on European societies - both through legal avenues, and through illegal assassinations.
