The Swedish artist sketched the Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body. Published in 2007, the cartoon offended many Muslims. He was the subject of death threats, and al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a ...

Islamic tradition or Hadith, the stories of the words and actions of Muhammad and his Companions, explicitly prohibits images of Allah, Muhammad and all the major prophets of the Christian and Jewish ...

There is no specific or explicit ban in the Koran, the holy book of Islam, on images of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad - be they carved, painted or drawn. However, chapter 42, verse 11 of the Koran ...