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No, Angola Has Not 'Banned Islam'. It's a Little More Complicated Than That.

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Killgore Trout11/27/2013 5:34:14 pm PST

Angolan Official Denies Islam Ban, But Muslims Say Mosque Closings Persist

ibtimes.com

“At the moment, we don’t have any information about that,” the second official said via telephone 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.”

The reports of mosques being dismantled have come under scrutiny, as a quick Google Images search shows that a photograph published by numerous news outlets this month that supposedly depicts the minaret of an Angolan mosque being dismantled in October 2012 had been published at least as far back as Jan. 23, 2008, when the Housing & Land Rights Network used it to illustrate an article about the demolition of Bedouin homes in Israel.