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Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that she believes Democrats are fighting for freedoms that Republicans are taking away with book bans.

Violent protests met a Qur’an burning demonstration in Sweden’s multicultural border city of Malmo on Sunday, leading to a night of riots.

“The unfree, medieval forces of the Middle East have won a victory today”, says Denmark’s former immigration minister.

Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following protests in Muslim world.

Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.

The UK barred Danish anti-Islamism activist Rasmus Paludan from entering the country to stage a Qur’an burning demonstration this month.

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has criticised Swedish police in Stockholm for allowing Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan to carry out the burning of the Qur’an. Bildt, who served as Swedish Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994 and later

The United States Swedish Embassy has issued a terrorism warning, noting a heightened risk of attacks following Qur’an burnings. 

Norwegian authorities cancelled a Qur’an burning protest that was set to take place on Friday after Turkish officials summoned the Norwegian ambassador in Ankara.

Turkish President Erdogan has stated that unless Sweden bans the burning of the Qur’an, he will not agree to the country’s NATO bid. 

Finnish police shut down the burning of the Islamic Qur’an in a demonstration against the country joining NATO.

A Sweden Democrats MP commented on the burning of a copy of the Qur’an, stating the reaction from the Islamic world has been unreasonable. 

Sweden closed its embassy in Turkey after protests spread across Muslim countries in the wake of a Qur’an burning in Stockholm last weekend.

Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson came under fire, including from a top ally, for critisising a Qur’an being burned outside the Turkish embassy.

Turkey responded with outrage after anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan went ahead with his planned Qur’an burning protest in Sweden.

Three men in the Swedish city of Linköping have been sentenced to prison over their involvement in riots triggered by anti-Islam activists burning the Qur’an. More burnings are now planned. 

Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.

Two women were arrested by Norwegian police after being accused of driving an anti-Islam activist off the road following a Qur’an burning.

Two of the four people convicted by a Swedish court in connection to Easter’s Qur’an burning riots will be deported.

Qu’ran-burning anti-Islam activists have been given the green light by police to carry out demonstrations, despite prior large-scale riots. 

A Swedish petition demanding the govt make burning the Qu’ran a crime followed multi-day riots over anti-Islam activists burning the book. 

Violent riots continued over the weekend in Swedish cities in reaction to anti-Islam Qu’ran-burning activists, with three people shot and injured by police in Norrköping and a school set on fire in Malmo. Since Thursday, Sweden has seen rioting across several

Schools in Ontario are facing backlash after burning or destroying books deemed offensive to First Nations, including classic comics such as Tintin and Asterix.

A Swedish prosecutor has brought charges against 12 men and one woman connected to rioting in August after a copy of the Islamic Quran was burned in Malmö.

A 31-year-old man and six teens were given light sentences for participating in a riot in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö earlier this year after anti-Islam activists burned a copy of the Qur’an.

Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan was arrested in Paris this week and deported after trying to burn the Quran in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

Swedish police are hunting for members of an anti-Islam group from Denmark who are alleged to have burned a copy of the Quran in Stockholm’s no-go Rinkeby suburb.

Student activists at Manchester University have defaced a large-scale copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” in their Student Union building and replaced it with a poem by Maya Angelou. Kipling, they claim, is ‘racist’.