The Swedish Institute noted increasingly negative rhetoric from Muslims towards Sweden and the Swedish government and police, as well as calls for boycotts on social media and from political and religious leaders in the Muslim world. A poll conducted by Swedish pollster Novus in collaboration with an Iraqi polling institute showed that 77% of polled Iraqis viewed Sweden as anti‑Islam.

Two protests took place outside the Karachi Press Club on 2 July 2023, condemning the burning. In Islamabad, Pakistan, police officers prevented supporters of the religious group Jamaat-e-Islami from marching towards the Swedish Embassy during a rally.

The Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi called for a genocide against Pakistani Christians to avenge Sweden's quran burning in a statement on 1 July.

On 29 June, protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad after the Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Sweden "hostile to Islam". The protesters briefly entered the building. On 19 July, after another planned Quran-burning, the embassy was stormed and set aflame by protesters, while Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador, severed diplomatic ties with Sweden and banned Swedish businesses in Iraq. The United States criticised the Iraqi security forces for not preventing protesters from storming the embassy grounds.

On 7 July, Iraqi football team Erbil SC kicked off the new season of the Iraqi Premier League at the Franso Hariri Stadium with a demonstration condemning the Quran burning.

In response to the burnings, the Iranian militia Ashab al-Kahf, which is also active in Baghdad, issued threats on Telegram urging followers to target "every Swede" with violence.

On the evening of 16 October 2023, an Islamic State sympathiser killed two Swedish nationals attending a football match at Place Sainctelette in Molenbeek, Brussels, and injured another. Belgian authorities said that a motive for the killing was that the victims were Swedish, and that the crime was potentially carried out as revenge for the Quran burnings in Sweden. The victims were wearing Sweden men's national football team shirts when they were shot. In a video released following the attack, the perpetrator claimed to have been directly targeting Swedes.

• The Swedish government condemned the burning, calling it "Islamophobic" and saying it did not reflect the government's view. The incidents caused a debate in Sweden over freedom of speech and the right to offend, versus what constitutes hate speech under Swedish law. Sweden has said that Russia-backed disinformation networks have been falsely claiming that the Swedish government supported the burnings to undermine Sweden's chances of joining NATO. Swedish police filed preliminary hate crime charges against a man who burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm in June 2023, with Swedish state prosecutors to decide whether to formally indict him or not. If they do indict him, it will be up to a Swedish judge to decide on whether or not his actions constituted incitement under the current law. On 30 July, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Sweden was in "the most serious security situation since the Second World War."
• The Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on 30 July that "the burnings are deeply offensive and reckless acts committed by [a] few individuals. These few individuals do not represent the values the Danish society is built on." The Danish government also said it would try to find legal means to prevent burnings of the Quran in front of other countries' embassies. On 4 August, the government said it was tightening border controls to prevent unwanted individuals from entering the country.
• Afghanistan suspended all Swedish activities, which included Swedish aid worker groups, and said that the ban would remain active until Sweden apologized for their actions.
• In Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy director said it is Iran's duty to punish the violator individual, that the individual should not have security. The Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for the death penalty for the perpetrator, saying that Sweden had "gone into battle-array for war on the Muslim world". An Iranian Ministry of Intelligence report alleged that Momika was affiliated with Mossad since 2019. Extraterritorial operations Ali Mohammadi-Sirat of said the man who disrespected the Quran should fear for his life. General Salami said you should live in fear even if takes decades. Tehran announced they will build Quran Gate in relation.
• Iraq summoned the Swedish ambassador to the country, calling the Quran‑burning "racist" and "irresponsible". Iraq severed all diplomatic and business ties and connections with Sweden in response. Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Sweden to strip Momika of his citizenship and repatriate him for prosecution; failing this, al-Sadr said he would be tried in absentia. On 20 July, Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador in response to another planned Quran burning in Stockholm.
• Jordan described the incident as "a racist act of serious hate".
• Morocco recalled its ambassador to Sweden for an indefinite period.
• Muslims in Pakistan held a "Quran Sanctity Day" on 7 July after the prime minister Shehbaz Sharif called for protests. Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council on 11 July, Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari described the burning of the Quran as an "incitement to religious hatred, discrimination and attempts to provoke violence", done under "government sanction and with the sense of impunity".

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• List of book-burning incidents
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