Manama - A Bahraini woman disguised as a male cleric has tried to deliver a sermon during prayers, leading to a scuffle with worshippers and her subsequent arrest.
The woman, who was "bearded" and bespectacled, made her way to the stand where the mosque's imam was about to give a sermon during Friday's weekly prayers "when the muezzin grabbed hold of 'him' to ask where he was going", Sheikh Adnan al-Qatan said on Monday.
"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.
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"The muezzin then noticed that the voice of the man had changed and become softer and the beard was suddenly lopsided before they discovered the sheikh was a woman."
| The voice of the man had changed and become softer |
At one point she was able to overpower four men trying to restrain her, he added.
When asked for her motive, "the woman, yelling and screaming, said she had wanted to deliver a sermon because she wants to prevent sedition", Qatan said.
"I didn't feel angry," Qatan said. "I felt this person was not mentally stable because of what she did."
Men and women are segregated in mosques. Places are allocated for women to worship and follow the sermon via loudspeakers.
- This article was originally published on page 2 of Cape Times on November 16, 2004
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