Fatwa issued by Indonesia's Muslim clerics on some yoga

There are Western religions that admonish their adherents not to participate in any form of yoga because of its religious undertones.

Which Yoga specifically? There are many different Yogas, not only Hatha Yoga.

Christian fundamentalists and even many ordinary Christians have been deliberately misled into believing that Hatha Yoga is of the devil.

duhhh ... and you are taking up bandwidth, about yoga?

how about putting all of your marvelous intellect and energies .. into providing 4 billion people .. with clean water. while you are argueing yoga, 29,000 children die every day .. due to starvation and desease.

surely .. they are in touch, with your dialog, about yoga. In your abject hubrous .. you choose to spar, about yoga, when two thirds of our planet's popuation, would consider a little tub of Yogurt, a blessing from God.

I gotta ask .. where do you come from? Mabe YOU, should film in Tondo .. or Mindanao .. called feet dry.

I simply suggest, that perpaps there may be other issues that you might embrace, if you truly are interested, in making the world a better place.

Yoga .. a good thing, i guese. Meanwhile, people gotta eat. We had aid .. going into Bande Ache .. 3 days before any governmental agency .. or any global NGO was there.

And don't bust my balls for being some conserative or liberal .. I lost over two dozen guys on Nui Bah Den in 1968. Forty years later .. there are alot of folks, that would love to have a bowl of rice first .. and then mabe some yoga.

Yoga - Indian. Muslims must control their flock. Nothing Indian can be good. Mumbai ring a bell? Fuck the mullah cowards. When will we all get together and enlighten our fellow. Stop listening to the towel heads!

One of the biggest aspects of Islam is the emphasis on the spiritual and personal relationship between a person and God. Organized "fatwas" have nothing to do with true Islam. In my opinion they are probably either ignorant people with too much power (we Americans know how that can turn out) or they are trying to abuse their power to confuse and control the uneducated masses for their own personal gain (we know about this as well).

when i discussed this with my Muslim friends they disagreed and called them non religious...like always its like jeeze why don't you just start your own sect of Islam anyways. atheists and the nonreligious don't have this problem

i think they're talking about spiritual hindu yoga, which encompasses a range of practices to elevate consciousness. not so much the co-opted westernized physical exercise of the bourgeoisie.

Who gives a Shit!

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All institutions which hold a degree of power have their interest and attention in maintaining and acquiring power. These institutions will all fall into a hell-bent corruption which has the possibility of being aimed malevolently at another group of people. Disregard for what other people are saying is a form of selfishness, and just because the institutions aren't a single individual human in it's manifestation doesn't exclude it from being vulnerable to the vices in which the individuals which collectively sum up the institutions are susceptible to. In other worlds, they are subject to falling short of having everyone within their intentions. This creates an imbalance, and through the (metaphorical) friction which takes place between the interactions of all the beings within a given situation (which erupts due to not having any concern for the other group) ignites in violence. Those who are blinded by power disregard their brothers and sisters well-being. Islam, Christianity, the institutions which are products of ancient practices, are in turn subject to falling short of their own teachings. Power seems to trump spirituality even with the very groups that seem to propose the truth. All institutions are subject to the vices ,which cause friction, and ignite in violence and intolerance on our world. Simple as that...

that = completely reasonable.

Always ready to jump om Muslims for being intolerant. How many of you are ready to read some Quran?

It's ridiculous that we can't parallel the banning of Yoga due to hypothetical weakening of Islam with the banning of gay marriage due to hypothetical weakening of Christianity.

I am issuing a Fatwa against Islamic clerics how issue Fatwas.