[lbo-talk] Malaysia outlaws yoga for Muslims

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Interestingly enough, the question of yoga came up in a class of Spivak's
that I took a number of years ago.  Spivak noted that she was used to yoga
being connected to a particularly pernicious form of Hindu chauvinism and
it took her a while to adjust to the use of the sport as a simple form of
exercise in the U.S.  robert wood


> 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.
>
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> lytlað."
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