What mosque do you attend? What madhab do you follow? What is your opinion on ‘website w’, ‘group x’, ‘scholar y’ or ‘topic z’?
I get quizzed in this fashion often and I assume you do as well. It may be a natural tendency or a learned behaviour after centuries of division, however, we seem to seek out our differences before we seek what unites us.
If the answers are not exactly to the expectations of the questioner, he distances himself, refuses to collaborate and even fails to behave in an amicable way towards the unfortunate misguided respondent.
Not every division is so significant that it requires you to treat a Muslim as an outcast with leprosy. Neither is every difference so small that it can be safely ignored. It takes wisdom to know the difference.
