Quran burning in Sweden ignites tensions

Sweden gave a permit for a Quran burning protest in Stockholm, and it went about as you would expect. Salwan Momika, a 37yearold Iraqi immigrant, held the protest outside a mosque on the first day of Eid, causing a public outcry and a slightly singed copy of the Quran, although not before he had doused it with rashers of bacon and stamped on it a few times. Momikas protest was apparently designed as an exercise of free speech, and to highlight his opinion about the Quran. Police gave the goahead to the protest, as concerns were not of a nature that could justify, under current laws, a decision to reject the request. Momika conducted the protest under the protection of the police, and then, once he was finished, he was promptly arrested for violating a ban on public fires during a heat wave.