Monday, 25 November 2013

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques!!


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.
“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,” Rosa Cruz e Silva, the
Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by
Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.
Silva comments were given during her visit last
Tuesday to the 6th Commission of the
National Assembly.
She asserted that the decision was the latest
is a series of efforts to ban ‘illegal’ religious
sects.
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.
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 “habits and customs to Angolan
culture,” Silva added.
Same as Islam, Silva announced that there are
at least 194 religious sects that were not
authorized to have their activities.
“All sects on the list published by the Ministry
of Justice and Human Rights in the Angolan
newspaper ‘Jornal de Angola’ are prohibited to
conduct worship, so they should keep their
doors closed," she was quoted by Cameroon
Voice.
"In addition, we also have a long list of more
than a thousand legalization applications,”
she added.
The anti-Islam comments were not the
first by Angolan officials.
“This is the final end of Islamic
influence in our country,” President José
Eduardo dos Santos was quoted by
Osun Defender newspaper on Sunday,
November 24.
Last October, Muslims from the urban
municipality of Viana, Luanda, attended
the destruction of the minaret of their
mosque Zengo.
The provincial governor of Luanda,
Bento Bento, has also said on the
airwaves of a local radio that "radical
Muslims are not welcome in Angola and
the Angolan government is not ready
for the legalization of mosques."
He added that Muslims were not
welcome in Angola and that the
government would not legalize the
presence of mosques in the country.
According to CIA Factbook, 47% of
Angolans practice indigenous beliefs,
38% Roman Catholic and 15%
Protestant.
Islam’s opinion about freedom of
religion is evident from the Qur’an,
which says what means:
*{Say, ‘The truth is from your Lord’:
Let him who will, believe, and let him
who will, reject [it]}* (An-Nisaa' 4:29)
Again, God says: *{Let there be no
compulsion in religion: Truth stands
out clear from Error…}* (Al-Baqarah
2:256)

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