The post-9/11 period additionally reactivated the worry among the Christians. The rising numbers of Muslims presence in public institutions and the mushrooming of mosques everywhere throughout the country were frequently presented as proofs for the case that Ethiopian Muslims were aspiring for political power taking into account radical religious thoughts. People in public debates turned out to be more polemical and antagonistic. It was even asserted that Islamic schools were "brain programming sessions and jihad processing plants producing potential bin Ladens," and that "innocent Ethiopian children are taken to different countries in the Middle East for military training, and after that return home to take part in the fastidiously coordinated
