I don’t know in which part in the world you have been raised, in the part I live islamic religious practices are compulsory. Some extremests believe that those who don’t pray shall be beheaded, of course they can’t apply that but not praying here incurs a lot of prying and criticism.

To separate faith from practice in my opinion is a must, especially for those whose religousness is all about practice. Because in their early childhood they had been preached to that religion is all about practices and obedience. That simehow created religious hypocrisy. Most of muslims who move to non-islamic countries drop their practices all at once.
That is why i believe faith in any form is more important than practice, and practice that is not built upon strong faith is nothing more than hypocrisy.