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Nils Adler

Copy of Quran desecrated outside Stockholm’s Royal Palace

Counterprotesters hold up banners as they shout, 'Extinguish the hate' [Nils Adler/Al Jazeera[

Stockholm, Sweden – 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 time in a matter of weeks that Salwan Momika, 37, and Salwan Najem, 48, have burned the Quran, an act permitted under Sweden’s freedom of speech laws, at Mynttorget, a central square surrounded by government buildings and the palace.

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