The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.
I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.