Criticism of Sunni Islam

The Sunni sect of Islam, which is practiced by up to 90% or nine-tenths of the entire Muslim world, is criticized by the minority Shias on various grounds because of the contradictory beliefs with regards to the principles of Islam. The criticism can be found in authentic books of Sunnis with an undisputed neutrality.
Doubtful of God's knowledge
In one of the 99 attributes of Allah, He is referred as Al-Aleem (possessor of infinite knowledge). This has been agreed by entire Muslim ummah, still the Sunnis have doubted over God's estimation of the size of the hell and the doubt has been associated by them with none other than Muhammad, disagreed by the Shiites and other sects of Islam. It has been narrated by the greatest book of Sunnis after Quraan, Sahih al Bukhari. Shiites reject the authenticity of Sahih al Bukhari, however Sunnis regard the book as second after Quraan.
The book says that:
Mu'awiya the revered Ummayyad Caliph of Sunnis justified his hostility towards the family by pointing to the fact that he was merely adhering to a policy of opposition that had been created by the earlier Caliphs. This is what he wrote in reply to a critical letter by Muhammad bin Abu Bakr(the son of Abu Bakr):
According to Sunni traditions Uthman ibn Affan disobeyed Mohammad and favored the ones who use to insult Mohammad. Uthman ibn Affan appointed Waleed as Governor of Kufa. Waleed was a transgressor according to the word of Allah. Once when ordered by the Mohammad to collate Zakat from a tribe, he lied alleging they had refused to hand over their due, this lead to the descent of this verse:
Most significantly Uthman ibn Affan appointed Marwan ibn Hakam, who to quote Baladhuri:
Even the revered Sunni scholar Sayyid Qutb Shaheed was unable to mask his discontent over these facts, he writes:
Revere heretics
It has been believed in Sunni school of thouths that rejecting a Rightly Guided Caliph is tantamount to heresy and apostasy and rebelling against any Caliph even will lead to such persons being raised as betrayers in the next world; however once again in none other than Sahih al Bukhari its mentioned that revered personalities of Sunnis including Aishah and Muawiyah rebelled and fought the fourth Rashidun (Rightly Guided) Caliph of Sunnis Ali ibn Abi Talib.
It has been also mentioned in Sunni collections that uring her lifetime Aishah was a severe critic of third Sunni Rashidun Uthman ibn Affan, to the point that she advocated his killing. And after murder she chose to rebel against the fourth Sunni Rashidun Ali on the premise that killers should be apprehended. History records that she said the following about Uthman ibn Affan
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