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Malaysia: Yoga is OK for Muslims but…

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 @ 02:12 UTC

by Mong Palatino

Countries:: Malaysia
Topics:: Health, Religion
Languages:: English

The National Fatwa Council of Malaysia has ruled that the physical aspect of yoga without the mantras and other spiritual elements is not wrong. Blogger Nuraina thinks the edict is unnecessary.

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[...] against yoga has captured the attention of many people in the world. A few weeks ago, Malaysia also banned the mantras associated with yoga. Indonesians are debating the fatwa in an online forum. As expected, yoga [...]

# 2009-01-30 at 20:34 pm
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[...] ha catturato l'attenzione di molte persone nel mondo. Alcune settimane fa, anche la Malesia ha proibito i mantra associati con lo yoga. Gli indonesiani stanno discutendo sulla fatwa in un forum online. Come ci si [...]

# 2009-01-31 at 10:04 am
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[...] judu širom sveta su primetili ovu zabranu joge. Pre nekoliko nedelja, Malezija je takođe zabranila mantre koje su povezane sa jogom. Indonežani raspravljaju o zabrani na online forumu. Kao što se i moglo [...]

# 2009-02-3 at 22:35 pm

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