Several demonstrators gathered in front of the al-Amine mosque in downtown Beirut on July 7, 2023, and burnt the Swedish and Israeli flags. (Credit: Nabil Ismail)
BEIRUT — A few dozen people, including religious dignitaries, gathered in front of the Al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut on Friday to express their displeasure at the burning of the Quran in Sweden on June 28, the first day of the Adha holiday.
Several demonstrators gathered in front of the al-Amine mosque in downtown Beirut on July 7, 2023. (Credit: Nabil Ismail)
Some protestors burned the Swedish and Israeli flags, and chanted religious slogans. Others held up placards calling for the boycott of Swedish products.
A man burns a Quran during a demonstration outside a mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, June 28, 2023. (Credit: STEFAN JERREVANG/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP)
On June 28, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, burned a few pages of a copy of the Quran in front of Stockholm's largest mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, a major Islamic holiday.
The incident triggered a series of reactions throughout the Muslim world. Muslim-majority countries such as Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco summoned their Swedish ambassadors in protest.