A few days ago the interwebs started to go aflutter with news that the African nation of Angola had banned Islam, and had plans to demolish mosques and otherwise get rid of the religion. Seemed unlikely, and today there’s this:

Angola denies it has banned Islam

It seems that there was a misunderstanding… some mosques apparently *have* been closed, but that was due to a lack of proper land titles and such bureaucratese. This seems a reasonable explanation… religious organizations often try to build facilities where such are not zoned, or ignore  building codes, etc. and get all righteous and snippy when the relevant government officials lay a legal smackdown on ’em. And as we’ve seen in the US, whenever a religious group has legal troubles, there’s always *somebody* who will start screaming about how it’s “oppression” or a “war on X, Y, Z.”  And in this case… we’re dealing with a religion whose adherents have a long history of raising imagined slights into riots. So even if the legal actions in Angola are entirely reasonable, I won’t be the slightest bit surprised if people die. After all… people have died for cartoon, people have died for fictional tales of books in toilets.