The accusations that KK Mart insulted Islam were not proven so the boycott against the company’s outlets had no justification, Perak mufti Wan Zahidi Wan Teh said today.

Based on Islamic judicial methods, criminal intent (alqasdul jinaei) cannot be proven through direct evidence (syahadah), but with circumstantial evidence (garainul ahwal) or a confession, he was quoted as saying by Berita Harian.

Boycotting an ethnicity is also against the Prophet Muhammad’s practices (sunnah)...