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'Bearded' woman tries to deliver sermon
MANAMA — A Bahraini woman disguised as a male cleric tried to deliver a sermon during prayers here last week leading to a scuffle with worshippers and her subsequent arrest, the mosque Imam said yesterday.| "Shaykh Ya Bouti Masjid welcomes Mullah Pat as your guest imam to-day...hey, waitaminnit!" |
The woman, bearded and bespectacled, made her way to the stand where Sheikh Adnan Al Qatan was about to give a sermon during Friday's weekly prayers "when the muezzin grabbed hold of "him' to ask where he was going," Qatan told AFP. "When I noticed what was going on below the stand, I started my sermon so as not to cause a scene. The "man' was taken to a room in the mosque," Qatan said. "The muezzin then noticed that the voice of the man had changed and become softer and that the beard was suddenly lopsided before they discovered the sheikh was a woman," he added.Â
| "Besides, the beard twarnt long enough!" |
Posted by: Steve White 2004-11-16 |
