{"id":3151,"date":"2013-11-25T06:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2013-11-25T06:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T06:33:15","slug":"angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/11\/25\/3151\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe 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,\u201d Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Silva comments were given during her visit last Tuesday to the 6th Commission of the National Assembly.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She asserted that the decision was the latest is a series of efforts to ban \u2018illegal\u2019 religious sects.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the minister, the action was necessary to fight relentlessly against the emergence of congregations whose worshipping is contradicting with the customs of the Angolan culture.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Same as Islam, other faiths which were not legalized will face closure of their houses of worship.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\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.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;In addition, we also have a long list of more than a thousand legalization applications,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Recurrent<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The anti-Islam comments were not the first by Angolan officials.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis is the final end of Islamic influence in our country,\u201d President Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos was quoted by Osun Defender newspaper on Sunday, November 24.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last October, Muslims from the urban municipality of Viana, Luanda, attended the destruction of the minaret of their mosque Zengo.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Bento, has also said on the airwaves of a local radio that &#8220;radical Muslims are not welcome in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He added that Muslims were not welcome in Angola and that the government would not legalize the presence of mosques in the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to CIA Factbook, 47% of Angolans practice indigenous beliefs, 38% Roman Catholic and 15% Protestant.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam\u2019s opinion about freedom of religion is evident from the Qur\u2019an, which says what means:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*{<em>Say, \u2018The truth is from your Lord\u2019: Let him who will, believe, and let him who will, reject [it]<\/em>}* (An-Nisaa&#8217; 4:29)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Again, God says: *{<em>Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error\u2026<\/em>}* (Al-Baqarah 2:256)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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