{"id":7298,"date":"2008-12-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/14\/anti-yoga-edict-is-not-binding-say-malaysian-religious-leaders\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T12:00:00","slug":"anti-yoga-edict-is-not-binding-say-malaysian-religious-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/14\/anti-yoga-edict-is-not-binding-say-malaysian-religious-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-yoga Edict Is Not Binding, Say Malaysian Religious Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/pti%5Cptisite.nsf\/0\/1BA120C88AF8FA376525752000494540?OpenDocument\">www.ptinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Kuala Lumpur, December 15, 2008: Malaysia&#8217;s National Fatwa Council has said the edicts issued by it were only &#8220;views&#8221; and are &#8220;not binding&#8221; on any state. Some Malaysian states like Sarawak had banned Yoga while several others such as Malacca and Johor are contemplating to make the practice out-of-bound for Muslims. <\/p>\n<p>Yoga is very popular in this multi-ethnic country where many Malay Muslims, ethnic Indian Hindus, Christians and Chinese attend Yoga classes.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Concil, Mr. Husin, said it was &#8220;a matter of wisdom&#8221; how issues should be individually managed. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.ptinews.com Kuala Lumpur, December 15, 2008: Malaysia&#8217;s National Fatwa Council has said the edicts issued by it were only &#8220;views&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}