Qur’an burning in Sweden sparks protest outside embassy in Baghdad – National | 24CA News
Dozens of Iraqis gathered on Thursday in entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad to protest on the burning of a Qur’an exterior a mosque within the Swedish capital Stockholm, in line with a Reuters witness.
Some of the protesters burned a rainbow-coloured flag representing the LGBTQ2 group and chanted “yes, yes to the Qur’an.”
The governments of a number of different Muslim nations, together with Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Morocco, issued protests concerning the incident.
A person tore up and burned a Qur’an out of doors Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday after Swedish police granted permission for the protest to happen. After the burning, Swedish police charged the person who carried it out with agitation towards an ethnic or nationwide group.
Protesters gathered in Baghdad shortly after populist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada Sadr known as for demonstrations exterior the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, expelling the Swedish ambassador and burning the LGBTQ2 flag, amongst different calls for.
–Reporting by Ahmed Saad, writing by Amina Ismail, Editing by William Maclean
