An armed military group called Ashab al-Kahf directs sharp threats of violence against Swedes, reports TV4 Nyheterna. “Kill them wherever you find them,” it says. “The events of Koran burnings are an act of war and a sign for us to act hard,” writes Ashab al-Kahf on Telegram. The group urges its members to “search for all Swedish interests and destroy them”, and... 

Turkey makes a concrete demand on Sweden that risks making the country’s NATO membership impossible. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken out about the burning of the Koran in Sweden and is now demanding that the legislation be changed. Erdogan has made it clear that he will not support Sweden’s NATO membership before the ban on blasphemy is reintroduced in Sweden. Foreign... 

The Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan’s burning of the Koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm has prompted the European Commission to make complaints against Sweden. Blasphemy, or as it is known, “hate based on religion,” has no place in the European Union, claims the Commission. The Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has emphasized that it is not against the... 

Another five men and a young woman have been arrested for involvement in the Koran riots in Örebro. During Tuesday and Wednesday, the police arrested six people after the violent riot in Sveaparken during Good Friday. The classifications are, among other things, gross sabotage against blue light operations. All are arrested. The people who have now been arrested by prosecutors are five men, aged... 

Mobs of youths clashed with police and set fire to vehicles in a bid to disrupt an anti-immigration party’s rallies. Chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’, police cars set on fire, and officers injured – this is what the run-up to Easter looked like in multiple towns and cities across Sweden this week, after the authorities gave a far-right anti-immigration group the go-ahead to stage rallies, which included... 

A video out of Norway shows Muslims vaulting fences to try to attack an anti-Islam activist who burned a Koran. The incident took place in Oslo on Saturday. A group called ‘Stop Islamization of Norway’ held a demonstration and were faced by a counter-protest of left-wing activists. “We wanted to burn the Koran but police don’t allow it…so we toss it,” one of the speakers says. A copy... 

Jewish leaders are calling for new editions of the Bible and Koran to carry warning messages which highlight anti-Semitic passages in the holy texts. The recommendations have been made in a new document called ‘An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism’. It was produced following an international conference organised by the European Jewish Congress, at which academics... 

Swedish teachers are concerned over Muslim students’ open hostility to non-Muslims allegedly learned from their extracurricular Koran studies. Kent Karlsson, a teacher at a school with students from grades three to six in Borlänge, said Muslim students wouldn’t listen to him because he was white or a non-Muslim. “… Students question teachers who do not have [a] Muslim background by saying,... 

Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), has stirred controversy with a manifesto posted online, calling for the total “de-Islamification” of the Netherlands. In this far-reaching document, Wilders, a far-right Member of Parliament, pledged to halt immigration from Islamic countries, close all Islamic schools and asylum centers, and ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves... 

Turkish authorities will allow Koran readings at Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, a former Christian church and mosque which now is a secular museum. Greece slammed the move, with some fearing that Erdogan’s government is taking steps to turn the site back into a mosque. Verses from the Islamic sacred book will be read at the Byzantine masterpiece daily during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. The readings... 

Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor said on German television that “being German” in future will not mean having blonde hair and blue eyes, but being a Muslim migrant and wearing a hijab. Note how the German audience applauded the eradication of their own people. Because supporting the extinction of your own race is far less of a burden than – God forbid – being called a racist. Kaddor was responsible... 

Sheikh Adel Al-Kilbani, former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, admitted during a television appearance that ISIS merely shares the same beliefs as all Muslims who embrace what is contained in the Koran. Asked if the emergence of ISIS was a result of “Islamic revivalism,” the Saudi cleric responded, “There’s no doubt about this, no doubt.” Dismissing the claim that ISIS was created by... 

A Muslim terrorist man carrying two handguns and a Koran in his bag has been arrested at the entrance to a hotel in the Disneyland amusement park in Paris, according to French police. The man was carrying two low-caliber handguns, a box of ammo and a copy of a Koran in a bag when he was arrested. The bag set off a security alarm as the man was passing a metal detector at the theme park’s New... 

An angry mob retaliating over attacks on firefighters and police has ransacked a Muslim prayer house in the French island of Corsica. The crowd set books, including several copies of the Koran on fire. Tensions mounted in Ajaccio, Corsica’s largest city of some 65,000 residents, after a night of violence in Jardins de L’Empereur. Two firefighters and a police officers were injured in what... 

Terry Jones, a Florida pastor infamous for burning the Koran, is running for president as an independent candidate. His foreign policy platform focuses on Islam as the greatest threat to the United States’ national security. In March 2011, Jones sparked outrage around the world when he supervised the burning of a Koran on the grounds of his tiny Florida church, Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville,...