International Yoga Day

[anotheoldgit]

Today is International Yoga day, and who is offended by it all?

You've guessed it, The Muslims.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/international-yoga-day-controversy-as-india-is-accused-of-pushing-hindu-agenda-on-muslims-10334532.html

/// The latest census figures suggest that 80 per cent of India's citizens are Hindu. 13.4 per cent of the population describe themselves as Muslim. ///

[ToraToraTora]

not like them to be offended!

[Gromit]

The Indian Government should bend over backwards to get the muslims on board.

[Svejk]

Good gagging, gromit.

[joggerjayne]

The world must stop recognising Islam as a legitimate religion.

Islam has shown time and again that it is not capable of maintaining any control over its adherents.

The world has got to say right, that's it, Islam has had its day. It was a nice idea, but it has failed. Pick another religion.

[andy-hughes]

jj - //The world must stop recognising Islam as a legitimate religion.

Islam has shown time and again that it is not capable of maintaining any control over its adherents.

The world has got to say right, that's it, Islam has had its day. It was a nice idea, but it has failed. Pick another religion. //

Your proposal infers that 'the world' is capable of a consensus on anything - which is patently not true - especially about something as controversial as a matter of religion.

[sandyRoe]

Some clergy here in NI, both Protestant and Catholic, are against it, too. Yoga, like Halloween, can lead impressionable minds astray.

[keyplus90]

////Historian Dilip Simeon, writing in the Indian Express, has said that the debate is a “manufactured controversy” by Hindu politicians trying to spread Hindu culture as a dominant belief in the region.////

Dilip Simeon, he does not sound a Muslim by name. Having said that, first of all Yoga itself has nothing to do with Hindu religion and therefore many Muslims I know (including myself) do Yoga. But then no one forced me to take part in it or tried to make it compulsory for me. Had someone done so I might have denied to take part in it. And that is called personal choice and even that has nothing to do with any religion, including Islam.

[andy-hughes]

keyplus - you're snot suggesting that AOG has found a piece of inflammatory puff on a slow news day and posted it on here because it highlights his issues with Muslims ... are you?

[keyplus90]

I am not suggesting anything. Of course AOG has to post something otherwise his day seems a bit unusual. However I must say here that since this murderer, extremist Modi has become PM of India, most of the people in India including Hidus are in trouble. I will only post a small clip here by an Indian journalist/historian telling us what Modi and Co is all about.

[anotheoldgit]

Didn't quite get the support you expected did it a certain ABer?

Try buttering up to some others, perhaps then you may find someone who agrees with your strange views.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Didn't quite get the support you expected did it a certain ABer?

Try buttering up to some others, perhaps then you may find someone who agrees with your strange views. //

If you haven't the courtesy to address me by name, I would prefer that you did not refer to me at all.

This is my third request - please take note.

Thank you.