Month: November 2008

I DON’T like yoga. With all due respect to yoga practitioners out there, I always found it a little wimpy. I mean, yeah, it’s a great party trick to be able to bend over backwards and look like Linda Blair in The Exorcist but, really, is that going to help me lug two suitcases up four flights of steps?

THE Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) will investigate the practice of yoga in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, before issuing an edict on it.

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has urged all quarters to understand the content of the yoga fatwa issued by the National Fatwa Council and not twist facts which could cause confusion among the public.

SHAH ALAM: Selangor will only gazette the National Fatwa Council’s edict on yoga after the state government receives the views and explanations from the state Fatwa Council and Sultan of Selangor.

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Muslims who performed yoga without chanting any mantra can carry on with their activity as it was good for their health.

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Muslims who performed yoga without chanting any mantra can carry on with their activity as it was good for their health. He urged all quarters to understand the content of the yoga …

Mr Abdullah said Muslims who performed yoga exercise without chanting Hindu mantras could carry on with their activity as it was good for their health. — PHOTO: REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR – MALAYSIA’S Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday …

In a move that drew widespread protests, Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council of prominent Islamic scholars advised Muslims at the weekend to avoid yoga because it involves Hindu prayers that could compromise the faith of Muslims. The ban raised the …

Malaysia’s prime minister said Wednesday Muslims should still take up yoga, reversing an outright ban that has drawn widespread protests.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday waded into a row over a ban on yoga for Muslims, saying they could practise the exercise as long as it had no spiritual elements.