![\"Siraj](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Siraj-Wahhaj-and-Lucas-Morton.jpg\")
<\/a>Judge Backus said at the hearing that while what she had heard was “troubling”, prosecutors did not prove that the defendants posed a threat to the wider community.<\/p>\n
“The state alleges that there was a big plan afoot, but the state hasn’t shown to my satisfaction, in clear and convincing evidence, what that plan was,” she said.<\/p>\n
The prosecution argued that all five adults were dangerous and should not be granted bail, because they had trained the children to use weapons and carry out school shootings.<\/p>\n
They also said that the remains found at the site were those of Abdul-Ghani and that the other children said the boy had died during a “religious ritual… intended to cast out demonic spirits”, where Siraj Wahhaj had put his hand to his son’s forehead, and recited verses from the Koran.<\/p>\n
But defence lawyers accused the prosecution of treating the five suspects unfairly because they are Muslim – something prosecutors deny.<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Thomas Clark said after the hearing that if the accused were Christian and white then “nobody would bat an eye over the idea of faith healing”.<\/p>\n
“But when black Muslims do it, there seems to be something nefarious, something evil,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/span>