{"id":787381,"date":"2023-07-20T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=787381"},"modified":"2023-07-20T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:32:20","slug":"protesters-storm-swedish-embassy-in-baghdad-ahead-of-planned-quran-burning-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/religion\/protesters-storm-swedish-embassy-in-baghdad-ahead-of-planned-quran-burning-in-stockholm","title":{"rendered":"Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad ahead of planned Quran burning in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. (AP video shot by Ali Jabar) (July 20) BAGHDAD (AP) &#8212; Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire and setting off a diplomatic furor. Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ahead of a planned burning of the Islamic holy book Thursday in Stockholm by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran in a previous demonstration last month. Following the incident, the Swedish Embassy announced it had closed to visitors without specifying when it would reopen. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani convened a meeting with security officials and said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. (AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}