Malaysian yoga fatwa
Many Malaysians like to start their day with yoga which they see as a healthy, stress relieving activity which has little to do with their religion.
However it seems that the Malaysian National Fatwa Council and prominent Muslim clerics do not agree and they have issued a fatwa on yoga because of it's roots with Hinduism. The council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin said that some of the activities like chanting which he sees as being similar to worshipping were inappropriate and could "destroy the faith of a Muslim".
In an article on the BBC it goes on to describe how many Muslim's in Malaysia will follow this fatwa even if it is not legally required to do so. Others, however, will continue to do yoga as they see it as having a great benefit to their lives and in no way compromises their religion.
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