A 50-year-old man has denied religiously motivated harassment after a Koran was burned outside the Turkish consulate in London.Hamit Coskun, 50, from Derby, has been charged with “intent to cause ...

Fasting begins Saturday, when Muslims will refrain from eating or drinking anything from dawn to sunset for the month. It's a ...

Britain risks creating a new blasphemy law “by the back door” by charging a man over the burning of the Koran outside Turkey’s London consulate, a senior Tory MP has warned.

His mere existence makes him a figure of hate for extremists, but Ludovoic-Mohamed Zahed won’t be silenced. He talks to our Writer at Large ...

A man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden has been found guilty of hate crimes, five days after his co-defendant was shot dead. Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen ...

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A police force has been accused of endangering a man who burned a Koran. Martin Frost, 47, admitted a religiously aggravated public order offence after being filmed tearing pages from the Islamic ...

Martin Frost ripped pages out of the Koran near the Glade of Light memorial to the 22 victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, before setting them on fire. He publicised it beforehand and ...

Welcome, blessed month of Ramadan! As the crescent moon marks the arrival of Ramadan, hearts around the world fill with ...

A man has admitted to setting fire to the Islamic holy book the Koran which was live-streamed on social media. Martin Frost, 47 was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the ...

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Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fines over the Koran burnings and derogatory comments he made about Muslims in the 2023 incidents, which led to unrest and ...