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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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By Azera Rahman Bali, March 8 (IANS) Many Islamic scholars in Indonesia agree with Indian clerics that yoga doesn’t contradict Islam and point to many similarities between the two. Their views are helping Muslims who practise yoga resolve their dilemma in the face of a ban on certain elements of the ancient health technique. “I couldn’t have [...]

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Now, who among us is going to risk a personal fatwa by telling these radical Muslims that as they take to their knees facing Mecca, they are unwittingly performing the second posture of child’s pose?Ooops.

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By Azera Rahman, Bali, March 3 : Yoga doesn’t contradict Islam and is a means to healthy living, a well known Islamic scholar said here Tuesday, barely weeks after a fatwa was issued in Indonesia banning Muslims from practising the ancient Indian technique.

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The Malaysian government has reinstated a law banning any Christian publications from using the word ‘Allah’, the Associated Press reports. Home affairs minister Syed Hamid Albar said the move would overrule a February 16 decree which stated that non-Muslim books were allowed to use the term as long as they specified their un-Islamic nature. Paying little heed to the intelligence of the country’s 17 million Muslims, the government claims that pan-religious use of the term would “confuse” foll

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