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Woman ‘Imam’ Held in Bahrain Mosque 
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News 


JEDDAH, 15 November 2004 — Police in Bahrain arrested a woman on Friday
for disguising herself as a man and trying to deliver the Friday sermon
at one of the largest mosques in the island state, Asharq Al-Awsat
reported yesterday. “The 40-year-old woman, who had put on an artificial
beard and mustache and was wearing full male dress, took her place in
the first row of the mosque packed with 7,000 worshippers, and intended
to deliver the sermon before the prayer,” the paper said quoting Sheikh
Adnan Al-Qattan, the mosque’s imam. The people who had assembled there
for prayer did not take long to discover that the new “imam” was a woman
and stopped her from climbing the “mimber” or podium used by the imam to
deliver the sermon. The woman is now under detention at Houra police
station. One of the worshippers prevented the “imam” from getting into
the mimber. “In the ensuing jostle, the woman’s beard fell off and this
revealed her gender,” Qattan said. The woman was so powerful that four
men could not control her. Finally, the worshippers overpowered her and
handed her over to police. “The woman had prepared a sermon to deliver
at the mosque,” the imam added. 
 	
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