freediver wrote on Dec 7
th, 2020 at 6:49pm:
That has nothing to do with the legal presumption.
It has everything to do with it.
As soon as you ask how much money a group of people are sending to terrorists, you are asking a legal question about their guilt or innocence in an actual crime under our laws. Its actually very simple FD: saying 0% is saying they are (legally) innocent, and saying anything about 0% is sayng they are legally guilty.
You are quite literally asking if these halal certifiers are guilty or innocent of a crime under our laws. It really is that simple. You are not speculating about how many times they pick their nose on any given day - in which case stating '0 times' would indeed by making crap up (assuming you really had no idea).
So to answer your question in a broad sense - the legal definition of the presumption of innocence holds that the burden of proof lies with the person(s) accusing someone of a crime. If that proof is not presented, then by default the accused is presumed to be innocent.
In our specific case, this means that by default the halal certifiers are legally presumed to send 0% of the fees to terrorists (a crime under our law), until such time evidence is presented proving otherwise.
Therefore the question "what percentage of halal certifier's fees goes to terrorists" - is a question of legal innocent or guilt, where 0% = "innocent" and anything above 0% = "guilty". The correct, and in fact only answer that is acceptable
when no evidence proving their guilt of this crime is presented - is "0%"
freediver wrote on Dec 7
th, 2020 at 6:49pm:
Incredibly simple, and yet apparently beyond you. Why do you think the truth is irrelevant to whether you are lying? Is it a Muslim thing? Has Islam somehow twisted the legal presumption of innocence into something entirely different?
Oh look, FD answers once again with an inane variation of "you're wrong, so there".
Tell me FD, has it been your intention from the start to spend 6 month+ and 33 pages in the same thread failing to make even a single argument? Or has that fact not quite dawned on you yet?