12 hours ago · Momika came from the Al-Hamdaniya district of Qaraqosh, a town in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. [1] He was an ethnic Assyrian and raised as a Syriac Catholic. [2] [3]In 2017, Momika fled to Germany with a Schengen visa, where he announced his atheism and apostasy from Christianity. [3] In April 2018, Momika applied for a refugee visa to Sweden, and he was since then, registered as an ...

Salwan Sabah Matthew Momika (Arabic: سلوان صباح متَّى موميكا; Syriac: ܣܠܘܢ ܨܒܚ ܡܬܝ ܡܘܡܝܟܐ; 23 June 1986 – 29 January 2025) was an Iraqi refugee in Sweden. He was a former militia member of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). After leaving Iraq he lived in Sweden as a refugee.

1 day ago · STOCKHOLM (AP) — 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 ...

18 hours ago · Salwan Momika, Iraqi man who burned Quran in Sweden, killed in shooting. Five people arrested over murder as the Swedish prime minister said the shooting could be linked to a foreign power.

22 hours ago · Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said ...

21 hours ago · Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

22 hours ago · The anti-Islam activist who sparked outrage and riots in Muslim-majority countries over his repeated Quran burnings in 2023 in Sweden, was killed on late Wednesday evening at his home, local media reported. Salwan Momika was set to stand trial over hate incitement charges on Thursday. A judge at the Stockholm District Court, Göran Lundahl, confirmed that the verdict was postponed to Feb. 3 ...

22 hours ago · Swedish police have confirmed the killing of Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika overnight on Wednesday. Momika, who was in his 40s and became famous for his regular Quran-burning ...

15 hours ago · Salwan Momika, an asylum seeker in Sweden and anti-Islam campaigner, sparked waves of outrage throughout parts of the Muslim world in 2023 when he burned a copy of the Quran outside a mosque ...

20 hours ago · Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Qur'an-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities.