“Four out of five of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims live outside the Middle East. They aren’t Arabs; they’re Africans and Asians. Along this fault line, they meet nearly half of the world’s 2 billion Christians. (For more on the 10th parallel and the nations that surround it, see this interactive map produced by the New American Foundation.)
This is the band where religious fervor and swelling populations are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. This is the band where the world as we know it is breaking apart. This is the band that runs through Ethiopia. Today, Ethiopia’s population of nearly 83 million is divided nearly evenly between Christians and Muslims. I’ve come to see what happens when the two religions meet.”
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