Ethiopian Teen sentenced to 14 months of prison in arson, bomb-plot case

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In front of roughly 40 family members and friends Wednesday, an 18-year-old former Springbrook High School student was sentenced to more than a year in prison for setting fires and plotting to set off explosives at the Silver Spring school in April.

During Yonata Getachew's sentencing in Montgomery County Circuit Court, it was clear the troubled student had a supportive family, a timid personality and zero prior encounters with the criminal or juvenile justice system.

But, as prosecutors argued, he also held a grudge against school counselors who he felt unjustly let him toil in special-education classes and had a temper that flared up when he felt slighted.

"This is a very complex picture presented," said Circuit Court Judge Michael D. Mason before sentencing Getachew, of the 11500 block of Sutherland Hill Way in Silver Spring, to 14 months in prison.

"I have seen people commit crimes that need to be punished even if they are good people," he added.

Getachew, dressed in a black sports coat, white dress shirt and black dress pants, spoke briefly Wednesday and showed no reaction when sentenced.

"I am very sorry," Getachew said softly. "I would never hurt anybody."

Getachew pleaded guilty to first-degree arson, first-degree conspiracy to commit arson and two counts of reckless endangerment for his involvement in setting two fires in the boys' bathrooms at Springbrook in April and for attempting to rupture a natural gas line in a classroom.

He will receive credit for 161 days already served at the Montgomery County Detention Center and, after his prison sentence, he will have five years of supervised probation.

His codefendant, 17-year-old Anthony Torrence, was charged in juvenile court and received probation. The names of juveniles charged with crimes are typically withheld, but Torrence's name has been published because he was originally charged as an adult.

The students planned to puncture a gas pipe near the stage in the school's auditorium and throw an incendiary device into the room to cause an explosion after gas filled the room, according to charging documents filed in Montgomery County District Court. They planned to throw a nail bomb into the principal's office and a bag of rocks at a school counselor, according to court documents.

Getachew and Torrence were arrested April 28 after police responded to a report of the bathroom fires and Torrence admitted the plot to an educational facilities officer at the school.

Getachew's attorney, David Putzi of Glen Burnie, argued that his client's actions were the result of a long-held frustration with his academic progress that was provoked when he failed a test that would place him in regular English classes. Getachew had been involved in an Individualized Education Program for students with learning disabilities.

It was after he failed the test that he began to hold ill will toward the school and when he began to plot along with Torrence, who Getachew had only known a few weeks prior to their April 28 arrest, Putzi said.

Torrence's confession made their discussions seem more severe than their actions, which only amounted to $88 in damage, Putzi said in court.

"This case took a life of its own because of statements from Anthony Torrence," said Putzi, who asked Mason for a sentence of only probation, the minimum under the sentencing guidelines.

But Torrence's statements corroborated what Getachew told investigators and Getachew's behavior at school did not corroborate what Putzi and the Getachew family said about his personality, prosecutors said.

"Honesty, obedience, not using foul language: That's the side portrayed to the family, and I'm sure that's all they saw," said Assistant State's Attorney Peter Feeney, who prosecuted the case. "But there's another side to him."

That side included skipping classes, "lying through his teeth" to investigators after his arrest, forging hall passes and throwing profanity-laced tantrums when reprimanded, Feeney said, citing letters submitted to Mason from a security officer at the school and an assistant principal.

Getachew intended to do more harm than Putzi gave him credit for, Feeney said, noting that there was visible damage to the natural gas lines beneath the science classroom at the school.

In the wake of the arrests, several students missed up to a week of class in fear of being harmed, the counselor Getachew targeted left the school system and Springbrook has seen an increase in students transferring to other schools in the Northeast Consortium cluster, according to the letter from the assistant principal, which Feeney read in court.

"He really achieved his goal in instilling fear in those he dislikes," the letter read. "Please hold him accountable."

After the sentencing, his mother, Ayu Getachew, was optimistic her son could live up the promise she has always seen in him, as soon as he gets out of jail.

"We are looking forward to him coming back," she said on the first floor of the courthouse, with the tight-knit family of Ethiopian descent consoling each other around her. "He's going to be a great boy."

Ethiopian Activists Honored for Human Rights Campaigns

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By Selah Hennessy

London
08 October 2009
VOA

Two African activists have been named winners of a new award by the group Human Rights Watch. The Alison Des Forges Defender Award for Extraordinary Activism celebrates people from around the world who have worked through hard times to defend human rights.

Daniel Bekele is an Ethiopian human rights lawyer who fought to encourage voter education during Ethiopia's 2005 elections. As a result, he spent two and a half years in prison on political charges, accused of trying to overthrow the Ethiopian government.

Now living in Britain with his family, he says he will continue his fight for human rights in his home country. He says education is key on a continent where democracy is still developing.

"Voter education is very important in Africa because one good development we have in Africa recently is that a number of African countries are engaged in what is at least now regular elections," said Daniel Bekele.

Since Bekele's release from prison in 2008, the Ethiopian government has adopted a new law on nongovernmental organizations that makes the work of most human rights groups in Ethiopia illegal.

But he says the fight to protect human rights must go on.

"We are having it to travel a long way to ensure actual protection of these rights," he said. "Unfortunately there is a back-sliding since the political crisis in 2005."

He says the good news is that activism across Africa is growing and a brighter future may be on the horizon.

"Activism is on the rise in Africa as it is probably also evidenced by the fact that two of the four awards from Human Rights Watch this year go to Africa," said Bekele.

As Bekele points out, two of this year's four award winners are African. The second African is Mathilde Muhindo from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She works to help victims of rape in eastern Congo, a region plagued by widespread and systematic use of sexual violence by government troops and armed groups.

Human Rights Watch spokesman Tom Porteous says her work has changed women's rights in the country.

"She led a coalition of local women's organizations in Congo to advocate for a new comprehensive law dealing with the problem of sexual violence," said Tom Porteous. "And in fact as a result of her dedication and her work, that advocacy campaign has been successful."

Porteous says because of the work of activists like Bekele and Muhindo even countries that he calls 'failed states' have vibrant civil societies.

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Abuse of Domestic Workers in the Gulf (Ethiopian Women)

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Al-Jazeera English aired a story today about the abuse domestic workers suffer in the Gulf. The report included an interview with a women who came to work as a maid in the UAE from East Africa (her accent is Ethiopian, as far as I can tell). The maid was daily abused by her female employer for two years, from the second day of her employment and until a doctor notice her multiple injuries in a periodic medical checkup. The maid was beaten, burned with scolding water and hot iron, and was denied medical treatment for her injuries. She was forced to have sex with another maid, as their sadistic employer filmed them. The employer then used the video to blackmail the maid into not going to the police, saying that “the law is in her favor”.

Simel Isheb of the International Labor Organization told AJE that despite ministerial decrees across the region, domestic workers are still not protected by labor laws. Isheb added that the sponsorship system creates total dependency, which leads to “total vulnerability, and opens the door wide for abuse and exploitation”.

See the report here:

Ethiopian Airlines to commence flights to Sierra Leone

www.nazrett.com Home of Ethiopian News and Blog Breaking News The home-based staff of the Sierra Leone Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday 28th September, 2009 held fruitful discussions with the Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Girma Wake on plans for the Ethiopian Airlines carrier to commence flights to Freetown. The meeting was held at the Office of the Ethiopian Airlines head office in Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. The meeting was necessitated against the backdrop that Ethiopian Airlines has slated to commence regular flights to neighbouring Republic of Guinea and Liberia starting 1st October, 2009 leaving out Sierra Leone. The Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive was informed that for reasons of proximity it would be better if Freetown was brought on board the West African arrangement. Responding, Mr. Wake assured the staff members that their representation will be given serious consideration even though at the moment his airline is constrained with the availability of flights and personnel. He added however that the situation would be remedied very soon. In this vain, he explained that arrangements are underway for Ethiopian Airlines to commence flights to Freetown by mid November or the first week of December latest. He further stated that the Airline would start with two flights weekly and it would be increased to thrice weekly. The route would be Addis Ababa-Lagos-Lome-Freetown. The leg from Addis Ababa to Lome would be operated by Ethiopian Airlines while the Lome to Freetown route would be under the auspices of ASKAI Airlines also operated by Ethiopian Airlines. ASKAI Airlines is operating a 737 New Generation Jet. Abdul Karim Koroma Information Attaché Sierra Leone Embassy Addis Ababa Ethiopia Cell: +251 910853476

why is africa poor?

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just as american blacks blame whites for their failures, africans deny responsibility for the misery they bring on themselves. By william robertson boggs Black africa is the poorest part of the world by far. It is in africa that we find countries like zaire, ethiopia, chad, and the sudan, where gross national product per person is less than $200 a year. The 41 nations of sub-saharan africa produce no more wealth than the tiny country of belgium, which has only one forty-fifth as many people. Of all of the region’s economic production, white-run south africa accounts for three quarters. Numbers like these mean that africans live in misery so desperate that americans can scarcely imagine it. Every year, thousands of africans die of starvation. In bad years, hundreds of thousands starve. Even in tropical parts of africa untouched by famine, as many as one third of all children die before the age of five. One in a hundred births kills the mother. Malaria, sleeping sickness, hepatitis, leprosy, and aids are rampant. Nevertheless, the population of africa grows faster than that of any other region of the world. The total number of children, grand children, and great-grand children that the average american woman will have is 14. The equivalent figure for the average african woman is 258! despite the ravages of disease, starvation, and inter-tribal warfare, africa’s population increases by more than three percent a year. At that rate, populations can double in 20 years. Standard explanations why is africa poor? the standard explanations blame anyone but the africans. Colonization by whites, it is said, kept africa poor. The slave trade depleted the continent and impoverished it. Multinational corporations plundered it. Just as blacks in america seek to explain their own failings by blaming them on whites, africans explain their own poverty by blaming europe. Recently, this is how a broadcast on somalia’s state-owned radio attacked the bbc for reporting uncomplimentary facts: the bbc’s day dream … was to succeed once again in looting at will the abundant natural resources both on land and at sea in the third world, particularly in africa. The colonial bogeyman still lives. The argument that colonization accounts for africa’s poverty is so easily refuted that it should have gone out of currency long ago. That it has not can be attributed only to the apparently endless capacity of whites to accept arguments that paint them as villain. There is no reason to think that, left to themselves, africans would have risen from the primitive conditions in which europeans found them. To believe that colonization thwarted the economic development of africa is to believe that indigenous societies were on their way towards prosperity but were brutally shoved off course by europeans. In fact, african societies south of the sahara that had not had contact either with europeans or with middle eastern traders showed no signs of modern development. No pre-contact african society had devised a written language or had discovered the wheel. None had a calendar, or built multi-story buildings. No african had learned how to domesticate animals. The smelting of iron was widespread, as was fire-hardened pottery, but the continent did not produce anything that could be called a mechanical device. Africans had no concept of the biological origins of disease, and attributed personal misfortunes to the work of evil spirits. Slavery was widely practiced, and deeply rooted in africa long before the arrival of europeans. There is no reason to think that, left to themselves, africans would have risen from the primitive conditions in which europeans found them. The european slave trade, though unquestionably harmful to africa, was hardly the depopulating scourge it is often made out to be. When the 15th century portuguese began sailing down the coast, they met long-established slave traders keen to sell off surpluses. Europeans almost never went on slaving expeditions into the interior. They bought slaves from dealers, which means that slaves taken from africa were first enslaved by other africans. At the same time, europeans introduced two new world staples that could be stored — cassava and corn — revolutionizing the african food supply. The sudden increase in population more than made up for losses to the european slave trade which, in any case, ended by the middle of the 19th century. It was trade with europeans that introduced modernity to iron-age africa. Far from hobbling and holding the continent back, colonization laid the foundations for whatever evidence of economic progress can now be found in africa. It was europeans who built roads and rail lines, introduced piped water, schools and telecommunications, and built national administrations. Nothing suggests that africans would have achieved any of this on their own. There is no question but that life for africans improved steadily under colonization. By the 1960s, when most of africa became independent, the region exported food. Now, it devours more than $1 billion a year in western food aid, and thousands still starve. Pre-colonial africans it is possible to argue that africans might have been better off if they had been left entirely alone. This is to take a romantic view of the disease, tribal warfare, slavery, and ignorance that were widespread on the continent. Moreover, no african group that has glimpsed the possibilities of western progress has opted to return to purely african primitivism. This suggests that africans themselves would rather have the benefits of western technology than do without them. Given that people naturally yearn for medical advance and material progress, colonization was an obvious and striking benefit to africa.

EGYPT: Cleric calls for 'Friday of anger' against Al Aqsa violations

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October 6, 2009 | 10:43 am The head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Yusuf Al Qaradawi, is urging Egyptians to turn this Friday into a nationwide day of anger against the "Israeli practices at the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem." The Qatar-based cleric flew to Egypt from Doha on Monday to deliver a speech at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate in Cairo, where he condemned the Arab governments' silence towards the "violation of Al Aqsa's holiness" by Israeli settlers and occupation forces. Tensions erupted in the area known as Al Haram Al Sharif to Muslims and the Temple Mount to Jews last week when a group of non-Muslims entered the compound, which is the third holiest venue in Islam and the most important in Judaism. While Israeli authorities said that the group was composed of French tourists, Palestinians believed that they were Israeli extremists entering the mosque in celebration of the Jewish Sukkot festival. Further confrontations took place Sunday as tens of Palestinians entered the mosque overnight amid rumors that larger numbers of Israelis will be allowed to enter the mosque, before Israeli forces shut down the holy site. Muslims under 50 years old were later banned from praying inside the mosque and on Monday, thousands of Jewish worshipers prayed at the Western wall below Al Aqsa for religious celebrations. Qaradawi, who is well-known for his controversial fatwas, urged all Egyptian clerics to dedicate Friday prayer speeches to showing solidarity with Al Aqsa and asking Muslims to gather for peaceful protests afterward. The outspoken cleric is famous for once calling Jews a profligate, cunning and arrogant band of people. He has long been in support of Palestinian suicide bombers and previously said that the Holocaust was God's punishment to Jews for their corruption. Qaradawi wasn’t the only cleric to criticize Arab regimes for their "passiveness" against "Israeli violations." A number of religious scholars said that the Arab and Muslim world should rush to defend the sacred Aqsa from repeated "Zionist assaults." --Amro Hassan in Cairo Photo: Yusuf Al Qaradawi. Credit: Al Destour

Temple Mount access restricted for fifth day (By Ethiopian JEWS)

www.nazrett.com Home of Ethiopian News and Blog Breaking News Despite concerns that the arrest of the leader of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, would spark further unrest, the city was completely quiet yesterday. Still, the police maintained high alert in the Old City, East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. Entry to the Temple Mount today, for the fifth day in a row, will be permitted to Muslim men 50 or over and Muslim women of any age. Jews and tourists will not be allowed to enter. The same rules will apparently apply tomorrow, with thousands of Muslims seeking to pray on the Temple Mount and masses of Jews coming to the Western Wall, immediately below the Mount, for the last day of Sukkot. "This is an event with potential for escalation," a police official said. Advertisement The number of Muslims seeking entry to the Temple Mount is expected to swell following a call by Sheikh Yussuf Al-Qaradawi of Egypt, considered one of the Sunni Muslim world's great scholars, to declare Friday a "day of anger." About 75 people have been arrested since the unrest began in Jerusalem at the beginning of the week, among them 24 minors. Those arrested are suspected of a number of infractions including throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, attacking police and blocking traffic. Meanwhile, MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union) asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and Police Commissioner David Cohen to order an investigation for incitement to racism into the deputy head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Kamel Hatib. The demand came after Hatib told Army Radio: "We want a Muslim to be able to go into his mosque anytime and pray, without some cop from Ethiopia, some cushi, telling him 'you won't go in there.'" Hatib was using a derogatory term for dark-skinned person. A.T., a Border Police officer of Ethiopian origin who is involved in security on the Temple Mount and the Old City year-round, told Harretz regarding Hatib's remark: "I come to work as a professional and try to neutralize my feelings. I don't believe all Arabs think the way Hatib does." A police official said Hatib's remark "could be said to be spitting in the face." Hatib told Haaretz yesterday that he did not mean to humiliate a particular policeman. "As one who suffers from racism, I cannot use racist terms against others," he said. "My meaning was clear, that this particular policeman or security man who just came to Israel a few years ago should not tell me and other Muslims who have been the landlords for hundreds of years that they may not enter a mosque, and there is no doubt this is infuriating." Hatib, who was barred from Jerusalem this week for 14 days, has gone home to Cana in the Galilee, and is continuing his activities with Salah. Salah told Al-Jazeera in an interview: "I'll decide when I go to Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the Israeli occupation forces." Yesterday morning a delegation from the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee visited the mosque and met with the heads of the Waqf Islamic trust. Related articles: U.S. official: Obama impatient with delay in peace talks Jordan's king to Haaretz: Without two states, there is no future Israel fears violence following arrest of Islamic Movement

Ethiopian JEWS abusing Muslims in Palestine,And they call Israel an 'apartheid state'?

www.nazrett.com Home of Ethiopian News and Blog Breaking News And they call Israel an 'apartheid state'? Pamela Geller points to a Muslim Sheikh speaking at al-Aqsa Mosque, and wonders why the Obama administration is silent in face of the obvious racism. Salah’s deputy, Camel Hatib, who has been termed a “dangerous man” by former Northern District Police Chief Alik Ron, is also in Israel sights. MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) wrote to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, asking that an investigation be opened against Hatib for incitement to racism and violence. Hatib, interviewed on Army Radio, said, “The Al-Aksa Mosque and the Temple Mount are not holy to Jews and they are forbidden from praying there... It cannot be that an Ethiopian policeman, a Negro, will stop a Moslem from praying at the Al-Aksa Mosque.” Who is the racist? The Israeli who treats the Ethiopian policeman the same as any other citizen or the Muslim Sheikh who cannot bear the thought of answering to 'a Negro'? But don't expect anyone at the United Nations 'Human Rights Council' to investigate.

Ethiopian man was the 1st asylum seeker in Korea in 2001

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The Korea Herald/Asia News Network Bae Hyun-jung A sharply increasing number of foreigners are turning to the courts while seeking asylum in Korea, according to the Seoul Administrative Court Wednesday (October 7). As of the end of August, 99 refugee-related cases were filed, a 10-fold rise from the 9 cases during the same period last year, said court officials. The figure was also much higher than the past yearly records - one in 2004, seven in 2005, 21 in 2006, 22 in 2007 and 15 last year. The present law allows those who were denied asylum by the Justice Ministry to appeal to the Seoul Administrative Court within three months. "As Korea's reputation in the international society has improved recently, an increasing number of foreigners came to seek refuge," said a justice ministry official. The sharp rise may also be attributable to the launch of the refugee department, newly established at the Seoul Immigration Office in May. The department, exclusively set to support refugee-related issues, has sped up the application process for asylum seekers, the official explained. "Also, most asylum seekers tend to turn to the court when denied recognition, as the expulsion measures are to be deferred until all legal processes are over," the official also said. Korea signed and joined the UN Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees back in 1992. A total of 2,413 foreigners have sought refugee status in Korea and 145 were granted asylum by the justice ministry. The first refugee to be recognised was an Ethiopian man in 2001. "Acquiring refugee status in Korea is still more complicated than in other countries," said Thona Yiombi, a Congolese refugee who was granted asylum after six years of trying, 15 interviews and two denials.

Ethiopian Muslim Population Hits 28 million & 1.57B Globally- AP (Truth is Ethiopian Muslim puplation is over 40 Million.)

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News Ethiopian Muslim Population Hits 28 million & 1.57B Globally- AP By ERIC GORSKI (AP) The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report Wednesday billed as the most comprehensive of its kind. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion. The project, three years in the making, also presents a portrait of the Muslim world that might surprise some. For instance, Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon, China has more Muslims than Syria, Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined, and Ethiopia has nearly as many Muslims as Afghanistan. "This whole idea that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims is really just obliterated by this report," said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University who reviewed an advance copy. Pew officials call the report the most thorough on the size and distribution of adherents of the world's second largest religion behind Christianity, which has an estimated 2.1 billion to 2.2 billion followers. The arduous task of determining the Muslim populations in 232 countries and territories involved analyzing census reports, demographic studies and general population surveys, the report says. In cases where the data was a few years old, researchers projected 2009 numbers. The report also sought to pinpoint the world's Sunni-Shiite breakdown, but difficulties arose because so few countries track sectarian affiliation, said Brian Grim, the project's senior researcher. As a result, the Shiite numbers are not as precise; the report estimates that Shiites represent between 10 and 13 percent of the Muslim population, in line with or slightly lower than other studies. As much as 80 percent of the world's Shiite population lives in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq. The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia: More than 60 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia. About 20 percent live in the Middle East and North Africa, 15 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2.4 percent are in Europe and 0.3 percent are in the Americas. While the Middle East and North Africa have fewer Muslims overall than Asia, the region easily claims the most Muslim-majority countries. While those population trends are well established, the large numbers of Muslims who live as minorities in countries aren't as scrutinized. The report identified about 317 million Muslims — or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population — living in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. About three-quarters of Muslims living as minorities are concentrated in five countries: India (161 million), Ethiopia (28 million), China (22 million), Russia (16 million) and Tanzania (13 million). In several of these countries — from India to Nigeria and China to France — divisions featuring a volatile mix of religion, class and politics have contributed to tension and bloodshed among groups. The immense size of majority-Hindu India is underscored by the fact that it boasts the third-largest Muslim population of any nation — yet Muslims account for just 13 percent of India's population. "Most people think of the Muslim world being Muslims living mostly in Muslim-majority countries," Grim said. "But with India ... that sort of turns that on its head a bit." Among the report's other highlights: _ Two-thirds of all Muslims live in 10 countries. Six are in Asia (Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey), three are in North Africa (Egypt, Algeria and Morocco) and one is in sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria). _ Indonesia, which has a tradition of a more tolerant Islam, has the world's largest Muslim population (203 million, or 13 percent of the world's total). Religious extremists have been involved in several high-profile bombings there in recent years. _ In China, the highest concentrations of Muslims were in western provinces. The country experienced its worst outbreak of ethnic violence in decades when rioting broke out this summer between minority Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese. _ Europe is home to about 38 million Muslims, or about five percent of its population. Germany appears to have more than 4 million Muslims — almost as many as North and South America combined. In France, where tensions have run high over an influx of Muslim immigrant laborers, the overall numbers were lower but a larger percentage of the population is Muslim. _ Of roughly 4.6 million Muslims in the Americas, more than half live in the United States although they only make up 0.8 percent of the population there. About 700,000 people in Canada are Muslim, or about 2 percent of the total population. A future Pew Forum project, scheduled to be released in 2010, will build on the report's data to estimate growth rates among Muslim populations and project future trends. A similar study on global Christianity is planned to begin next year. 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Al-Jazeera Special Report on Abusive acts against Ethiopians in Middle East.

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