Global Outrage: Protests Escalate Over Quran Burning in Sweden

Thousands of followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested in major cities in Iraq, condemning the burning of a Quran during a protest in Sweden. Some demonstrators called for the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq. The protests came after a man, identified as an Iraqi Christian, burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm. The act drew widespread condemnation in the Muslim world, and Iraqi officials have called on Sweden to extradite the man for prosecution in Iraq.