[Stultis]

What about the Bahai? Is that another sect of Islam?

I'll jump in, even though I don't know much. The guy (don't remember his name) that started this religion, early in this century IIRC, claimed to be a prophet or divine incarnation or somesuch. Either claim is inimical to Islam, which holds that Mohammed was the last prophet, and rejects absolutely the whole notion of divine incarnations. I believe that Bahais have been heavily persecuted in some Muslim countries. The founder of Bahaism was a bit like Mohammed, however, in that he believed his new religion synthesized the other major faiths, and (unrealistically) expected Christians, Muslims and Jews to flock to the new "higher" faith.

[untenured]

That pretty much agrees with my understanding. I believe that the Bahais' claim to have superceded Islam because Mohammed, like Jesus, was just another prophet, is unusually grating to some fundamentalist Muslims, who view the Koran as God's final revelation. Hence, hundreds of Bahais were executed as heretic Muslims in postrevolutionary Iran.

Interestingly, Bahais say that God explicitly endorses the equality of the sexes in a way that is (by design, I would argue) opposite to Islam.

There is a huge Bahai temple (perhaps their North American headquarters?) in Evanston, IL.