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The Economist: Ahok's re-election had seemed assured until September, when he told a group of fishermen that he understood some of them would not vote for him because they had been deceived into believing that the Koran forbids them to vote for a Christian.
Islamists accused Ahok of denigrating the word of God. They stirred up sectarian outrage further by spreading a doctored clip of the speech on the internet and staged protests to press the authorities to arrest him. Prosecutors eventually charged Ahok with blasphemy. Since December he has appeared in court once a week as the trial proceeds.
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