{"id":1854,"date":"2013-12-01T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T09:26:56","slug":"angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1853\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/angola_bans_islam.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"431\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/angola_bans_islam.jpg 431w, https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/angola_bans_islam-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">LUANDA \u2013 According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has banned Islam, condemning it as &#8220;illegal&#8221; and taking first measures by destroying different mosques in the Southwest African nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice,<\/span>\u201d Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.<\/p>\n<p>Silva comments were given during her visit last Tuesday to the 6th Commission of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>She asserted that the decision was the latest is a series of efforts to ban \u2018illegal\u2019 religious sects.<\/p>\n<p>The minister added, in her answer to questions raised by the MPs of the 6th Commission of National Assembly, that the action will oblige the revision of law 2\/04 of May 21, related to freedom of religious assembly, Angolan official news agency, Agencia Angola Press, reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Angolan government would also be obliged to update the current national context as a way of fighting the rise of new religious congregation whose religious assemblies are contrary to \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">habits and customs to Angolan culture,<\/span>\u201d Silva added.<\/p>\n<p>Same as Islam, Silva announced that there are at least 194 religious sects that were not authorized to have their activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll sects on the list published by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in the Angolan newspaper \u2018Jornal de Angola\u2019 are prohibited to conduct worship, so they should keep their doors closed,&#8221; she was quoted by Cameroon Voice\u200f.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In addition, we also have a long list of more than a thousand legalization applications,<\/span>\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Recurrent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The anti-Islam comments were not the first by Angolan officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">This is the final end of Islamic influence in our country,<\/span>\u201d President Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos was quoted by Osun Defender newspaper on Sunday, November 24.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Muslims from the urban municipality of Viana, Luanda, attended the destruction of the minaret of their mosque Zengo.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Bento, has also said on the airwaves of a local radio that &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">radical Muslims are not welcome in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Muslims were not welcome in Angola and that the government would not legalize the presence of mosques in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to CIA Factbook, 47% of Angolans practice indigenous beliefs, 38% Roman Catholic and 15% Protestant.<\/p>\n<p>Official numbers, cited in the US State Department 2012 International Religious Rights Report, say that Islam in Angola is a minority religion with 80,000-90,000 adherents.<\/p>\n<p>Islam\u2019s opinion about freedom of religion is evident from the Qur\u2019an, which says what means:<\/p>\n<p>*<span style=\"color: #008000;\">{Say, \u2018The truth is from your Lord\u2019: Let him who will, believe, and let him who will, reject [it]}<\/span>* (Al-Kahf, 18:29)<\/p>\n<p>Again, God says: *{<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error\u2026<\/span>}* (Al-Baqarah 2:256)<\/p>\n<p>On Islam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUANDA \u2013 According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has banned Islam, condemning it as 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