evidence: Outcry over Quran burning in Sweden: A timeline [...] While protesters in Sweden kicked and partially damaged a book they said was the Quran, they did not burn it as they had threatened to do. According to Swedish media reports, the incident was planned by Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi refugee in Sweden who also burned pages of a Quran in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque on June 28 during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival.