AFP, JAKARTAA Christian woman charged with blasphemy has escaped jail for taking a dog into a mosque, the latest religious case to draw headlines in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. The case of Suzethe Margareth, 52, sparked outrage last summer, when a video emerged showing her in a mosque in Bogor, near the capital, Jakarta, wearing shoes and letting her dog run loose. Dogs are considered impure in Islam and wearing shoes is forbidden in a mosque. A Bogor court on Wednesday ruled that Margareth was guilty, but decided not to impose a prison term because she has paranoid schizophrenia. Margareth testified that she went into the mosque because she was being chased and heard voices in her head saying that her husband was getting married there.

Source: Taipei Times February 06, 2020 16:18 UTC