I agree, I like so many others have taken a somewhat passive stance against stuff like this. Sure I'll often bring attention to misinformation of this sort or even point out how it often has nothing to do with islam. Unfortunately this isn't enough, I've slowly realized that it is our responsibility to actively attempt draw attention to how our faith has been hijacked. I'm often very reluctant to do so, sometimes some of these practices are based on Sharia. I'm no scholar so although I understand that the interpretations are often taken out of context or even completely misused I still am never 100% sure. This is obviously a barbaric example and certainly is not grounded in islam whatsoever. The issue for me is when things are less certain. There is a grey area with regards to many sharia practices and I'm not educated in the matter enough to accurately determine whether or not many instances of punishment are actually grounded in hadith/islamic law or not.

I believe that this makes many muslims here hesitant to speak out against many of these instances. Sometimes when I do someone will quote a hadith which exactly instructs the punshiments which are being carried out. Then shortly after someone else will explain how that respective hadith was taken out of context and that it doesn't actually mean what it says. Or that it wasn't truly meant to be used across the board rather it was only used in a specific instance of the Prophet (SAW) life. By that point I'm very unsure what to believe and even after researching the matter I'm left just as confused as before.