Police maintain security outside the Malmo Synagogoue prior to a visit by Sweden's Prime Minister on the eve of the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, in Malmo, Sweden, on October 12, 2021. Almost two years after this event, a Swedish activist has made a request to local police to burn a copy of the Torah outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm to protest the burning of a Koran. PHOTO BY JOHAN NILSSON/GETTY IMAGES
Swedish police have received a request to burn a Torah book in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, officials said Wednesday.
The request follows the burning of a Koran outside the main mosque in the city that sparked a backlash across the Islamic world earlier this year.
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