Not True: Angola Denies Burning Mosques And Banning Islam »

Stories had recently flooded the internet that
Angola had banned Islam and was destroying
mosques,

but it seems that there may be no
truth to the rumors.
An official at the Angolan Embassy in
Washington, D.C., who did not want to be
identified while discussing the sensitive
matter, told IBTimes that there is no such
ban, and that the reports are erroneous.
“The Republic of Angola … it’s a country that
does not interfere in religion,” the official
said via telephone Monday afternoon. “We
have a lot of religions there. It is freedom of
religion. We have Catholic, Protestants,
Baptists, Muslims and evangelical people.”
News of Angola’s supposed ban on Islam
originated in the African press, which went so
far as to quote the nation’s president and
minister of culture offering statements that
suggested the premise of the reports was
accurate.
A second official at the Angolan Embassy in
the U.S. reiterated that the diplomatic seat
has not been made aware of any ban on Islam
in the country.
“At the moment we don’t have any
information about that,” the official told
IBTimes via phone on Monday. “We’re reading
about it just like you on the Internet. We
don’t have any notice that what you’re
reading on the Internet is true.”