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Jakarta's Christian governor Ahok found guilty in Islam blasphemy trial

An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran at a trial that undermined the country's reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam.

In a tense trial that was widely seen as a test of religious tolerance in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was "found to have legitimately and convincingly conducted a criminal act of blasphemy, and because of that we have imposed two years of imprisonment", head judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court.

Ahok was charged with blasphemy after he said clerics had used a Koranic verse to mislead voters by telling them that Muslims were not allowed to vote for a Christian.

He has denied wrongdoing, and said he was not criticising the Koran, but rather the clerics' interpretation of the verse.

The sentence was harsher than expected and will come as a shock to many of his supporters. TV news coverage of the scene outside the court showed some supporters weeping.

The Left also has blasphemy rules, called political correctness. Although not actually criminal laws, the Left screams for removal, punishment, and even death for blasphemy and offense against the Narrative of the Cathedral. Further, it recognizes entire factions of humanity to be blasphemous by virtue of their existence. Like Muslims, Christians are at the top of the list of targets, along with white men, non-Leftists of any color/gender/whatever. The Leftist hate sometimes seems more virulent because they are impotent and screaming is all they have. Which is why the Left admires the Muslims, who are neither impotent nor constrained by western civil laws. The Left will always love Islam, Sharia, Muslims, right up until the Muslim caliphate purges the Leftist cathedral to rid the world of immorality.