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Kota Kinabalu : Muslims are not the only ones who are having reservations on yoga. Sacred Heart Cathedral Youth Counsellor, George Thien, said the Catholic church’s advice to Christians is also “not to go for it.” Thien was commenting on the National …

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Jakarta, Nov 26 : Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, will not follow the Malaysian move to ban Muslims from practicing yoga, the country’s top clerics have said.

Jakarta, Nov 26 (IANS) Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, will not follow the Malaysian move to ban Muslims from practicing yoga, the country’s top clerics have said. “It is okay if it’s for sport but I do not know if …

Jakarta: Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, will not follow the Malaysian move to ban Muslims from practicing yoga, the country’s top clerics have said. “It is okay if it’s for sport but I do not know if it is proven that it …

Once again the venerable members of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) are engaged in things which need not be of concern. Instead of bringing serenity, they are squandering their time and attention on issues that serve only to unsettle a finely …

THE ban by the National Fatwa Council will only serve to drive underground Muslims who practise yoga for health and recreational reasons and for whom yoga forms an important part of their lives.

IPOH: It is up to the rulers of the respective states in the country to accept the National Fatwa Council’s decision to ban Muslims from practising yoga.

PETALING JAYA: It is up to the Ruler and religious authority of each state to accept or reject the National Fatwa Council’s edict banning Mus–lims from practising yoga.

An influential Malaysian royal has stepped into a controversy involving a religious edict by the country’s top Islamic body banning Muslims from practising yoga, a form of exercise rooted in Hinduism. In comments bordering on a rebuke, Sultan …