[SeekAndFind]

Momika also stepped on and kicked an Iraqi flag, as well as photographs of al-Sadr and of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Protesters scale a wall at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad Thursday, July 20, 2023. Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the embassy early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.

[SeekAndFind]

For those who don't remember....

Muqtada Al-Sadr, the son of a prominent Shiite cleric assassinated in a 1999 attack believed to be organized by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, quickly organized Shiite dispossessed under Saddam against the American occupation after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

Saddam loyalists and Shiite extremists alike would soon fight an insurgency against the American forces. Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia fought American forces throughout much of 2004 in Baghdad and other cities. Al-Sadr's forces are believed to have later taken part in the sectarian killings between Shiites and Sunnis that plagued Iraq for several years after the bombing of one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam.

Since that time, much has changed.

Al-Sadr's followers have taken part in Iraqi military offensives against the Islamic State group in Tikrit and other cities. He has organized rallies against government corruption, including breaching the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, the highly secure area housing government offices and many foreign embassies.

[Organic Panic]

There is a reason these people live in s holes. They like it. Leave them be and just keep an “iron dome” to keep them in their s holes.

[Reno89519]

I thought they already burned it down a week or several ago.

[Gen.Blather]

Sweden has been a very pro Islam country. It has been a stupid policy and has led to rapes, murders and beatings in Sweden. It’s time for Sweden and the rest of the formerly Christian world to divorce itself from the Middle East and the religion of Satan.

But, the Swedes are ruled by Leftists and Leftists don’t have to live with the policies they promulgate on the actual people of Sweden. They live in gated communities. Their children attend expensive private schools. When they need medical care, they just pay for it. The maid deals with any errands outside the home where they might have had contact with the horror they are forcing on the normal citizens. Fine. Let the embassy burn. Sweden will apologize and throw more money into the infinite hole of the Middle East.

[Tell It Right]

When Muslims attack embassies without repercussions, they attack bigger things.

[Antioch]

Is the point of burning another culture’s sacred scriptures to induce them to hate us or to promote “free speech” and ”democracy”? I don’t get it.

[MeganC]

Islam is as Islam does.

[Boogieman]

I’m not sure why Western countries even bother to keep embassies in muslim countries. Seems like a liability more than anything else.

I guess the CIA still needs the pied-a-terre though.

[BenLurkin]

[Reverend Wright]

Why even have embassies in these moronic countries.

Just creates the potential for future hostage takings.

[lightman]

Hoe boy...Friday is coming.

[nickcarraway]

Are they allowed to desecrate the Bible?