28 June 2023
●Quran burning outside the Stockholm mosque
Other regions#Protests over insults to Islam
PartiesArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)Muslim forces (generic)
On 28 June 2023, the first day of Eid al-Adha, an Iraqi refugee burned a copy of the Quran outside the Stockholm mosque with police permission, and repeated the act on 20 July outside the Iraqi embassy; demonstrations across the Islamic world and the storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah commented from the Ashura platform on 21 July calling for the expulsion of ambassadors.