Malaysia Bans Muslims from Yoga

A few days back I talked about how an American school is allowing the students to practice yoga without calling it Yoga. Now, more drama.

Muslim clerics of Malaysia issues a fatwa on Yoga. They believe this practice has Hindu elements…and we cannot have Muslims following kaffir influenced things, can we? You know, this is interesting. No matter how much we make fun of the Americans, the Muslim clerics always cross the limits and do something hilariously ridiculous thing.

Yoga is an ancient art of living healthy. Just because this rose from ancient Hindu philosophy it doesn’t mean just practicing yoga you become a Hindu. This is a cultural discovery. Now, the Christians invented computers, iPhone and all other cool stuff, why don’t the Muslim clerics put a ban on all these things? Those are all kaffir influenced devilish materials.

Well, it doesn’t work that way. They take the convinient path and it’s convinient to ban Yoga but a big hassle to ban the internet. We do have to mention though that youtube, wikipedia and all other Satanic websites had been banned by Malaysia, Pakistani and other Islamic countries. For sometime around mid 1990s, the Satanic internet was totally banned in Bangladesh. That’s a big achievement Bangladesh should be proud of.

The thing is that doing these types of things these clerics are really turning Muslims in general a laughing stock to the whole world.

Anyways, I totally consider myself to be a Hindu but I don’t do yoga. I have friends, who don’t call them Hindus but do Yoga all the time. People, who want to do yoga will do it in their private places regardless of stupid fatwas.

The Islamic authorities have issued a ruling, known as a fatwa, instructing the country’s Muslims to avoid yoga because of its Hindu roots.

To most people yoga is simply a sport – a stress-busting start to the day.

Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council said it goes further than that and that elements of the Indian religion are inherent in yoga.

Announcing the decision, the council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin said practices like chanting and what he called worshipping were inappropriate and they could “destroy the faith of a Muslim”.

The ruling is not legally binding but many of Malaysia’s Muslims abide by fatwas.
Yoga classes here are filled with mostly non-Muslim Malaysians of Chinese or Indian descent, but in the major cities it is not uncommon to see several Muslim women at classes.

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