[lbo-talk] Malaysia outlaws yoga for Muslims

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 14:23:00 PST 2008


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com>wrote:

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

To most nitwits, maybe. These are the same types who would walk the stations of the Cross or chant the Rosary for the therapeutic effects.


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

I can't think of anything that would be more obvious to someone who has spent the first five minutes skimming a book on yoga's history.

The ruling is not legally binding

Which raises the question of why the BBC chose such a breathless headline to report it.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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