"International Pressure Mounts for Sweden and Denmark to Outlaw Quran Burnings"

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
"International Pressure Mounts for Sweden and Denmark to Outlaw Quran Burnings"
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest grouping of Muslim nations, has called on Sweden and Denmark to ban desecrations of the Quran, highlighting a clash between the Scandinavian countries' commitment to free speech and the West's efforts to build a broader coalition against Russian aggression. This comes after protests and the burning of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in response to a planned Quran burning in Stockholm.

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