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Baghdad: Dozens of Iraqis protested on Thursday in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after a man burned a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm...
Some of the protesters set fire to a rainbow-coloured flag representing the LGBT community and many held the Koran and portraits of populist Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and chanted yes, yes to the Koran...
In its permit for Wednesdays demonstration, Swedish police said that while it may have foreign policy consequences, the security risks and consequences linked to a Koran burning were not of such a nature that the application should be rejected...
Sadr had called on his followers to hold the protest and demand the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador, the cutting ties with Sweden and to keep burning the LGBT flag until the eighth day of the lunar month of Muharram because it is what irritates them the most, he said in a statement...
The ambassador should go and the embassy should not stay in Iraq at all , protester Moamal Abbas said.. (Reporting by Ahmed Saad and Maher Nazih; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by William Maclean and Alison Williams)..
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