I think your questions have been answered in my English fatwas and partly in some of my English articles. Briefly, there is a major mistakes in English translations ( of the Holy Quran ) relating to the original mistake in the Arabic (Tafseer ).Quran has its unique Arabic terminology which is different from the classic Arabic terminology. This includes some important terms like ( Islam, Muslim, Shirk , Kufr . Yahood, ..etc..).
We pray the same five daily prayers but reading the verse 18 of Sura 3 instead of Al Taheyyat. We also do not believe in ( Kasr Al Salah ) in travelling because it is only in war.