There is no law in Sweden specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Quran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, Sweden doesn’t have any blasphemy laws.

A Quran burning and requests for protests to destroy holy books, including the Bible, leave Sweden torn between free speech and respect for religious minorities.

Sweden on Thursday raised its terrorism alert level one notch to the second-highest setting, following recent Quran burnings in the Scandinavian country by a handful of anti-Islam activists, which ...

Sweden does not have a law specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Quran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, it doesn’t have any blasphemy laws; Sweden’s ...

In Sweden, there is no law specifically prohibiting the desecration of the Quran or other religious texts. The right to hold public demonstrations is protected by the Swedish Constitution.

On Tuesday, Sweden's SAPO domestic security agency revealed that Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was behind the breach, sending around 15,000 text messages in Swedish.

Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raise the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in response to the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, during a rally in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, July 2, 2023.

Why does Sweden allow Quran burnings? Like much of West, it has no blasphemy laws July 21, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. by KARL RITTER / Associated Press ...

STOCKHOLM >> A Quran burning and a string of requests to approve protests involving the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect ...

STOCKHOLM — A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden has sparked an angry reaction in Muslim countries and raised questions ...