salaams brother David, My husband has tried to discuss issues with hadiths, with sunni muslims..in the end i had to advise him to keep quiet..or he will end up shot!! Ok we live in the UK ..but if we were living in the middle east, i can imagine mobs gathering outside our home. It is so sad that this is the situation of islamic states, thank you brother David for summing up the way it is.. , and putting a knowing smile on our faces..we are not the only ones facing adversity!!

Peace, according to quran, we are submitters(in english) but people here feel ashamed to be called submitters for fear of being associating to the ICS, Tucson. But somehow they are not ashamed of calling themselves 'muslims' despite of the confusion that this surely generates, confusion that will put them in the same basket as those who condemn anti-hadith ideology, as those who condone terrorism, prophet-worship, etc It makes no sense that animals will be slaughtered in heaven, the description of heaven is purely symbolic, it is a dimension that our minds cannot understand, therefore God uses analogy to make us understand. I have never tasted caviar before, so unless you describe it to me in comparison with things i already tasted, i would not know. Why would i seek to know more on muhammad? Why him only?