Limited political support in Sweden to ban Koran burnings


Police stand guard near the Iraqi embassy ahead of a demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden July 20, 2023. REUTERS/Supantha Mukherjee/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - There is limited political will in Sweden to ban Koran burnings that have upset large parts of the Muslim world and it would be complicated to do even if there were backing for such a move, experts and politicians said on Friday.

The Swedish Embassy in Baghdad was stormed and set alight in the early hours of Thursday by supporters of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in anticipation of a burning of the Muslim holy book outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm, the latest of several such acts in Sweden in the past few years.

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