Malaysia clerics issue yoga fatwa
By Robin Brant BBC News, Kuala Lumpur
Many people see yoga as a way to maintain their health.
Millions of people in Malaysia have been banned from doing yoga because of fears it could corrupt Muslims. (Ridiculous, just treat it as an exercise and don't do the meditate part) 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(where got, I learnt yoga before, where got chanting, Uncle Husin pls go to the field and see with your own eye) were inappropriate and they could "destroy the faith of a Muslim".
The ruling is not legally binding(still can do lah, buy a YOGA CD and do it at home) but many of Malaysia's Muslims abide by fatwas.
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