Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up - like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Iranian officials say at least 27 people were killed and some 270 wounded in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchistan province, where worshippers had gathered to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Sufism arose as an organized movement after the death of Muhammad, the central prophet of the Islamic faith.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

He's the Swedish cartoonist who an al-Qaida linked group wants killed for depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

"Prophet Muhammad elevated the status of women, gave them the rights of divorce, the rights of inheritance, the rights of property and the right to maintain their name even after marriage."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19