Iraqi Muslims protest Quran burning in Sweden

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Baghdad, Iraq - 30 June 2023
1. Various of Muqtada al-Sadr supporters burning flags in response to the Quran burning in Sweden during Friday prayers
HEADLINE: IRAQI MUSLIMS PROTESTS QURAN BURNING IN SWEDEN
2. Various of worshippers holding copies of the Quran during Friday prayers
ANNOTATION: Hundreds of Iraqi Muslims have protested against this week's burning of the Quran in Sweden during Friday prayers.
3. Various of worshippers burning Swedish flag
ANNOTATION: The burning, which occurred during the Eid al-Adha holiday, has been widely condemned in the Muslim world.
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sayyid Sattar Batat, Sadr city Friday prayer preacher:
“We call on the Iraqi government to summon the Swedish ambassador and submit a strongly worded rejection and condemnation note, and if necessary, expel the Swedish ambassador and cut all diplomatic relations with them.”
5. Wide of protests
ANNOTATION: A man identified as a refugee from Iraq burned a Quran in Stockholm Wednesday, after a Swedish court overturned a ban on a similar protest.

STORYLINE:
Hundreds of followers of the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested this week's burning of the Quran in Sweden during Friday prayers in Sadr city, Iraq.

Some of the protesters burned rainbow flags, a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride.

On Wednesday, a man who identified himself in Swedish media as a refugee from Iraq burned a Quran outside a mosque in central Stockholm.

The Iraqi security official said the man was an Iraqi Christian who had previously fought in a Christian unit of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a collection of mostly Shiite militias that were incorporated into the country’s armed forces in 2016.

Swedish police authorized the protest, citing freedom of speech, after a previous decision to ban a similar protest was overturned by a Swedish court.

The act, coming during the Eid al-Adha holiday, drew widespread condemnation in the Muslim world.

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