In early October 2013, the Muslims living in Luanda in the municipality of Viana Zango were surprised to see the minaret of their mosque dismantled into pieces without any permission. On Thursday 03 October in the morning, the Angolan authorities decided to destroy the mosque Zango located in the urban district of Viana 17 km.
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An announcement on the radio, by the governor of Luanda Bento, saying that radical muslims are not welcomed in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques in Angola.
On Tuesday, November 19, the Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruze Silva said, the legalization process has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. Thus, all mosques should be closed until further notice. “ It should be noted that the Angolan government has made closing of all mosques a priority. The only two mosques located in Luanda have already received a warning document signed by the mayor of the municipality of Viana José Moreno.
The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Bento, said on a local radio that “radical Muslims are not welcome in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques.”
The Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruze Silva explained that the law on freedom of religion will be reviewed given the current national context, saying that the Government will redouble its efforts to fight relentlessly against religious cults like Islam which are contrary to the customs of Angolan culture.
95% of the total population in Angola are Christians. A quarter belongs to Protestant churches founded during the colonial period, including congregational evangelical church. This decision taken by the Angolan head of state is due to the Wahhabi ideology that has created havoc, death and destruction in Africa and other places. And as rightly explained, Tunisian philosopher Mezri Haddad: “Islamism and Islamophobia feed each other. Worse, long-term Islamism as an ideology destroy Islam as religion.“
According to a report released by the International Religious Freedom Report 2008, Islam in Angola is a minority religion with 80,000 – 90,000 adherents, composed largely of migrants from West Africa and families of Lebanese origin. The Muslims comprise between 2.5 to 3 percent of Angola’s overall population of 17 million people, most of them Christians.
But in the last decade, the population of the Muslim community has risen Islamic activities have become more common in major cities. Mosques have sprung up in a number of places and Qur’anic schools have been built to provide Islamic instructions and teach Arabic language to adherents.
Public attitudes toward Islam have been generally negative. The culture between Angolan and Muslim immigrants has always been opposite with different view point. Since the September 11 attacks, there has been a deliberate attempt to link Muslims with terrorism. It has become a matter of routine at Luanda airport for security officers to detain Muslims arriving from Sahelian countries.
On September 1, 2008, a Muslim mob attacked non-Muslims in the community of Andulo. The school-age daughter of a deacon at one of the churches was decapitated. Forty Christians were assaulted or tortured. The mob burned three church buildings. They also went to non-Muslim houses to intimidate them or destroyed items of property. Stones were thrown at the headquarters of a local Christian project, causing some damage. An Angolan Christian leader said that the local police were unable to stop the attack and fled the scene.
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