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The yoga must go on. So says organizers of an international yoga festival opening this week on the island of Bali, despite an edict barring the country’s Muslims from the practice if it’s anything more than physical. The problem is, in the majority Hindu island of Bali, yoga is often more than just exercise. Though Hatha yoga, a form intended to calm the mind and stretch the muscles, has become a popular source of stress relief in the West, yoga by definition is an ancient Indian ritual inten

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The religious order banning women from dressing like tomboys was bad enough. But the fatwa by Malaysia’s leading clerics against yoga was the last straw. “They have never even done yoga!” said Zainah Anwar, head of a Malaysian women’s rights group called Sisters in Islam. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council, was pure patriarchy. Islam, she said, was only a cover. It was frustrations like these that drew several hundred Muslim women to a c

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The NY Times recently ran an article that is, if not exactly news (because it’s about something that has been going on for some time), nonetheless interesting and important. On the issue of Muslim women using Islam to make feminist arguments , they write: Ms. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by the National Fatwa Council of Malaysia, is pure patriarchy. Islam, she says, is only a cover. It was frustrations like those that drew several hundred Muslim women to a conference

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The religious order banning women from dressing like tomboys was bad enough. But the fatwa by this country’s leading clerics against yoga was the last straw. “They have never even done yoga,” said Zainah Anwar, a founder of a Malaysian women’s rights group called Sisters in Islam. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by the National Fatwa Council of Malaysia, is pure patriarchy. Islam, she says, is only a cover. It was frustrations like those that drew several hundred Musl

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I often wonder how religious groups decide what to support and what to oppose. One assumes their decisions to ban something is connected to a religious principle or to something a religious authority years ago declared to be part of the religion. Indonesia’s Ulema Council (MUI) has issued an edict which bans the use of yoga on the part of Muslims and also bans smoking on the part of pregnant women and children. An additional declaration by the group imposes a demand on the part of Muslims to vot

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