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NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 20, 2005: Renowned yoga teacher Swami Ramdev has claimed that he has been threatened by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). “I have received an e-mail asking me to restrain myself from teaching yoga to Muslims,” Swami Ramdev said on Sunday in the Capital at a well-attended Press briefing, a day prior to the start of his seven-day yoga camp in the city. In the e-mail addressed to the renowned exponent of pranayam (deep breathing exercise), the banned Muslim fundamentalist organisation SIMI, which claims to be “Laden ke waris” (heirs to Osama bin Laden), issued a warning that yoga is to be taught to Hindus alone and not Muslims and that he (Swamiji) must not teach yoga to Muslims or else they will cause untold damages to his institutions, in particular a newly-built Ayurvedic hospital in Haridwar (UP). Before being banned in September 2001 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the shadowy SIMI claimed 20,000 members across India. The ban order came a little over two weeks following the September 11 attacks in the United States of America.

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