Iraqi-Iranian Shia Muslims flagellate their chests with their hands to mourn the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's prophet Mohammed, as they take part in a ceremony to mark Tasua or ninth in Arabic, in Tehran, Iran on January 7, 2009. Ashura is ten days of mourning during the Islamic month of Muharram, the first month of the lunar calendar, when Shiite Muslims mourn the seventh century martyrdom of Imam Hussein. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
Prophet Mohammed is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Cleric Reignites Age-Old Sunni-Shiite Disputes
AMMAN -- A leading Muslim Arab cleric has raised a political and religious storm across the region by speaking out audaciously on a subject that many Islamic scholars refuse to discuss because of political considerations - the "Shiite invasion" of Muslim societies.
Yemen: Reading It Right
There is a little publicized conflict going on in Yemen between government forces and a Shiite opposition group known as the "Huthis" in the country's far north, close to the Saudi border.
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The Osama Bin Laden Phenomenon
