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The burden of proof is on those making the claim. It doesn't seem baseless but so far there's nothing definitive which to be fair is partly because of poor record keeping in Somalia. Wouldn't be surprised if its true but I am going to take these claims with a grain of a salt given the history of bad faith accusations such as with the whole birtherism and pizzagate CTs.
And the affair is more damning anyway. I get that cheating is not a crime the way that immigration fraud is and if guilty of the latter she should be punished and removed from office but I can respect a sister making a sacrifice for her brother so he can live a better life more than an adulteress. I am not convinced she is the former but she does seem to be the latter.
Burden of proof is a legal concept. If she’s facing fraud charges then yes, the state needs to meet a burden of proof. Per this thread, it’s a discussion of what we believe to be most likely. IMO it’s pretty obvious that she entered in to a legal but non-Muslim marriage with her brother in order to help his situation, then dissolved that marriage once that course of assistance was complete. I believe this is true regardless of whether poor Somalian record keeping makes meeting a legal burden of proof impossible. And I’m curious to hear some plausible alternative explanation from her defenders that matches what we know to be true about the episode. FTR I acknowledge that you haven’t actually defended her so I’m not expecting you to offer that explanation.