Yoga may soon be outlawed in Malaysia, if a prominent body of clerics which is planning to issue a fatwa on the practice, has its way.
Malaysia's National Fatwa Council is going to impose a Fatwa on Yoga after Zakaria Stapa, a lecturer at the University of Kebangsaan's Islamic Studies Centre, on Tuesday advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it fearing that it could deviate their beliefs, local news reports said in Kuala Lumpur on
Wednesday.
"A ruling would be made by the council's Chairman, Abdul Shukor Husin, in this regard," deputy director-general of the department of Islamic development Malaysia, Othman Mustapha, quoted as saying by the
New Straits Times online edition.