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Convicted Shiite cleric: I am not an infidel
by Indra Harsaputra
Jakarta Post
July 13, 2012
https://www.legal-project.org/2780/convicted-shiite-cleric-i-am-not-an-infidel
Excerpt:
Shiite cleric Tajul Muluk described his two-year prison sentence as a politically engineered verdict aimed at alienating Shia Muslims after he was sentenced by the Sampang District Court, East Java, on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters after presiding judge Purnomo Amin Tjahjo declared him guilty of blasphemy against Islam, Tajul insisted he was a victim of slander and vowed to appeal to higher courts.
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