It’s the Islamic Equivalent of the Fictional Pope Joan

Defying Islamic traditions, a Bahraini woman disguised herself as a bearded Muslim sheikh to lead Friday prayers but was stopped before she reached the pulpit, a cleric said on Thursday…
“At first I didn’t think it was a woman. I thought it was just a cleric I didn’t know. Then when her beard began to slide off and her voice grew soft during a scuffle we found out she was a woman,” the sheikh said.

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  1. “At first I didn’t think it was a woman. I thought it was just a cleric I didn’t know. Then when her beard began to slide off and her voice grew soft during a scuffle we found out she was a woman,” the sheikh said.
    Which is another reason why the Pope Joan myth is quite incredible on the face of it. It is highly unlikely that a woman could make her way up the ranks and finally be elected Pope without anyone figuring out that she was a woman (except the guy who got her pregnant of course).

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