There's a beautiful discussion of this very issue [mas'ala] in the magisterial polemical work Jaa al Haqq.
now we need a special classification for this kind of post. perhaps you are pointing to people who post in such ambiguous manner.
the mufti most probably wasn't a sunni as this is what sunnis believe http://www.abc.se/~m9783/n/riiz_e.html
it was asked whether it was permissible to name one's child `abdu'l Mustafa or `abdu'r Rasul? a mufti wrote that it is not proper to name the child `abdu'l Mustafa...