Critical Thoughts

An interesting polemic that has been lodged by a Christian missionary in a Facebook comment recently:

Response:

“I think this phrase of “go at each others’ throats” should be more appropriate to use between Sunni and Sh’ia”: Very sneaky of you to attack the Muslims indirectly, while at the same time gloss over the dispute between the Catholics and Protestants, not to mention the brutal wars they have fought against each other in Europe in the past. So that phrase is more applicable to you and your brethren, since the Sunni / Shi’a dispute has never resulted in major wars between each other.

“On Jesus and Isa, do you know, how this ‘Isa’ name in Arabic come from?”: Please don’t bore me with that stale story about it coming from Esau, the rejected brother of Jacob. That is a common polemic which I have heard too many times from ignorant Christian missionaries such as yourself. Suffice to say that the origins of the word ‘Isa is Aramaic and it is much more accurate than the atrocious Hebrew name “Yeheshua” which you attribute to Jesus, son of Mary.

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Its amazing how there exist a group of people in this world who claim to be “Muslims” and yet oppose any attempts to make clear issues concerning the aqidah of the Muslims. Such people, whom I should refer to their disease as “Munafik-titis“, will find fault with anything involving the ulama or any fatwa (religious edict) which they think violates their “understanding” of Islam. It does not matter if these people never had any formal religious training in the first place. They still feel that they are qualifed to be the Law, the Judge and the Executioner….and all at once.

And I seriously doubt that they practiced yoga at any point in their lives either.

Now coming back to the issue of yoga and Islam, what the National Fatwa Council is planning to do is nothing novel nor are they the first to issue an edict on the matter. It is interesting that I happen to come across Islamonline.net and their collection of edicts, where they have made mention of yoga. I reproduce the following from the site mentioned.

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