Does anyone know how many times the stoning of adulterers was carried out in Islamic history? I have heard it was very rare indeed, and Rasullulah salala ho alayhi wasalam wanted people who confessed to him about it, to keep it between themselves and Allah subhana wata ala and to do tawba. We by contrast seem to want to kill people first, we talk about this as if it is one of the important fundamentals of the deen, we have been misled by the kuffar into discussing these issues as framed by them...they accuse, we defend endlessly, in the end we make it appear as if Islam is only about punishment for sexual crimes, while the much bigger crime of riba goes on everyday in front of our eyes and very few people will speak about this crime and its punishment very often.