Fatwa’s (religious rulings) on Tomboys and Yoga
Oh dear. What with princes of the realm fighting each other (http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/11495-malaysian-princes-come-to-blows), fatwa’s on tomboy-ism and yoga, you would think that the country is coming apart at the seams. When we have to pick on threads of the very hemline of the social fabric, you realise that something is horribly wrong in Camelot!
However, with the tone and tenor of the UMNO nominations being maintenance of the status quo in fact and only lip service to change is paid, how does one hope? The easiest thing to do would be to leave. To find another country and settle over there. OR to hope against all hope and understand that sometimes, this message of hope needs to come out of a deepest, darkest sewage of our failed ideas. Leaving the country is something that is only available to a few. The majority will have to stick it out here. And that includes members of my family and yours.
I cannot and will not abandon them until it becomes physically impossible to stay here. When I fear for my life. That’s the line I’ve drawn.
The sheer idiocy and small (in every sense of the word) mindedness of individuals who have the time and “breath” to publish rulings on issues like tomboy-ism and yoga are symptomatic of people who basically are grasping at straws to try and control the environment they live in when the perception is that very environment is OUT of control.
I know that the majority of people are more sensible than that. And I hope they (the religious authorities) realise that Muslims AND non-muslims are laughing at these rulings on tomboys and yoga in the sheer derision they deserve. Islam, a great, peaceful, harmonious spirituality, deserves better.
