Salwan Momika, the Iraqi who burned copies of the Quran in Sweden, has ties to the PKK terrorist group, a senior journalist mentioned.
Characterizing Momika as a “troubled and ominous individual,” Dikran Ego, the editor of Assyria TV, mentioned that he was expelled from numerous Christian institutions in Iraq.
Ego instructed Anadolu that Momika turned a part of the Imam Ali militia in Baghdad.
The Assyrian group in Sweden-of which Momika is a part-strongly reacted to the Quran burning incidents, Ego added.
“The church buildings, establishments, and organizations of the Assyrians in Sweden strongly condemned and distanced themselves from Momika’s provocations.
“Momika didn’t receive any financial or moral support from the Assyrians. He earns money by live broadcasting Quran burning provocations on TikTok. He himself stated this in the statements he gave to the press,” Ego mentioned.
TIES WITH PKK
“Considering Momika’s connection with the PKK and Türkiye’s ongoing NATO membership process with Sweden, we can understand that Momika is a pawn deployed by the PKK,” he mentioned.
“The Swedish academic Carll Drot included Salwan Momika in his research among Syriac militias in Iraq between 2014 and 2017,” he added.
“In his report, Drot stated that Momika is a violent, deceitful, psychopathic, pitiful figure among the Assyrians who seek to gain a position. In fact, in the statement he gave to Drot, Momika emphasized that he hates the Assyrians,” he mentioned.
Ego mentioned the group named Dawronoye, claiming to signify the Assyrians and talked about on this report, is understood to be based by the PKK terrorist group.
“Momika, who serves a group that is of no benefit to the Assyrians, has an organic connection with the PKK,” he mentioned.
BOXING MATCH BETWEEN MUSLIM YOUTH AND MOMIKA IS NOT FICTION BUT REAL
Ego additionally touched upon the widely-watched boxing match between Momika and a Muslim youth named Abbas on social media.
“In Sodertalje, Sweden, an Iraqi Muslim youth named Abbas beat Salwan Momika in entrance of the court docket. It was claimed that this video, which was extensively debated within the media, was a theater, however this struggle was not a theater, it was actual.
“According to my observations, they arranged to meet and fight after insulting each other and arguing on social media. Abbas came prepared to the scene with boxing gloves. Abbas later stated in his social media posts that the incident was not a theatrical performance and denied the news in the Swedish media about this,” he concluded.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
