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DENPASAR, March 10 — One month after the top Muslim clerical body in Indonesia issued a fatwa condemning yoga, the island of Bali is holding an international festival celebrating the ancient practice. It is the second time in recent months that the predominantly Hindu island in this Muslim-majority country has staged such open opposition to rulings by the Ulema Council, a quasi-governmental …

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One month after the top Muslim clerical body in Indonesia issued a fatwa condemning yoga, the island of Bali is holding an international festival celebrating the ancient practice.

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Yes, friends, the “progressive” adherents of the “Religion of Peace” in Indonesia have declared a “fatwa” against that most dire of threats . . . a yoga festival.

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JAKARTA - AN EIGHT-DAY international yoga festival opened on Tuesday on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali despite a fatwa against the exercise from the country’s top Muslim body. Organisers said seminars and workshops would help introduce yoga to a wider audience and rejected the clerics’ concerns that some forms of the popular exercise were a threat to Islam. ‘The festival has a universal value. It doesn’t belong to any religious teachings,’ International Bali-India Yoga Festival spokes

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Bali, March 4 (IANS) Never mind the recent ban in Indonesia on certain elements of yoga, the first International Bali-India Yoga Festival has attracted hordes of people. If anything, the ban has only escalated the popularity of yoga by making people curious, says Indian academician and spiritual guru Somvir, who has organised the festival here. “Instead of decreasing its popularity, the fatwa on the Hindu elements of yoga has escalated its popularity. People are now more curious to know what yog

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