Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated star of “Emilia Pérez,” has deactivated her X account and apologized after social media posts she had made disparaging George Floyd, Islam and a previous Academy Award ceremony resurfaced this week.

She suggested that Islam be banned and called George Floyd a drug addict who “very few people ever cared” for.

Karla Sofia Gascon, the transgender actress and history-making Oscar nominee for musical film "Emilia Perez," has apologized after old social media posts resurfaced in which she denigrated Islam and G

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The Swedish prime minister said the shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict was due on Thursday over his burning the Koran might be linked to a foreign power, and police arrested five people over the killing.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim world” by supporting “the criminal”, and that “all Islamic scholars agree that those who desecrate the Koran deserved the most severe punishment”.