Yoga Ban for Muslims

No intention to tweek the religious chord .. just a perspective..hopefully not ISA worthy!

It was only in recent years that Yoga has been enjoying great popularity despite having been around for decades, that is the traditional practice of yoga. The marketing force played an important role in transforming traditional yoga to the emerging trends that appeals more to the younger generation, eg. hot yoga, bikram yoga and comes with young instructors in nice costumes - you wish you can be like one of them with regular practice. Yoga has become an "industry" feeding lots of yoga studios, producing more and more trainers' programs and growing lots of yoga instructors. Many jumped into the bandwagon whatever the reasons.
The popularity is growing far too much for comfort, at least to certain religious authorities that start to scrutinise the practice. And to declare that yoga is HARAM ( forbidden ) to Muslims certainly shocked the whole yoga and non-yoga communities ! I am not a Muslim, but somehow I can understand why the religious authorities are uncomfortable. Most yoga practices are not just asanas ( postures ) but also emphasizes on meditation. Calming the mind is a constant message put out; and through meditation, one learns to achieve this. In Buddhism, ( and maybe even in Hinduism, if I may assume ) deep meditation if practised well can bring one into glimpses of its past lives and its karmic cycles. IF indeed, a Muslim yoga practitioner achieves this, doesn't this confuse the poor soul of what to believe ? His faith on the Almighty God, the belief of Hell / Heaven after life could be utterly shaken. Of course, that is a big IF. Not only in Islam, some churches have also imposed a ban on yoga to its followers.
By this, does it mean there is fear that the truth could be found in one's mind ? The human mind is a very powerful thing.