This paper examines how digital religious spaces have become key arenas for negotiating gender, authority, and inequality within contemporary South African Islam. It focuses on the public backlash directed at the Taking Islam to the People (TIP) committee after their participation in a Muslim community radio discussion on "Can women pray in the mosque?". The controversy, which unfolded primarily on WhatsApp and Facebook, drew in religious scholars, media affiliates, and lay publics who challenged not only the content of the discussion but also the legitimacy of women's participation in public theological debate. Situated within South Africa's Muslim history of colonialism, apartheid, and diverse Islamic traditions, this case shows how inherited patriarchal hierarchies still shape who is allowed to speak for Islam. Digital platforms may widen participation, but they also reproduce gendered and epistemic inequalities. For Muslim women, online visibility brings both new opportunities and intensified forms of surveillance, moral regulation, and silencing. The TIP case demonstrates how digital religion is not simply a neutral or democratising force but a contested field in which struggles over religious authority, gendered piety, and spiritual legitimacy are played out. Online critique operates affectively and relationally, mobilising shame, credibility, and appeals to orthodoxy to regulate women's religious voice, even as these same platforms allow alternative interpretations and lived experiences of Islam to circulate in Muslim digital publics. By foregrounding South African Muslim women's experiences of plurality, marginalisation, and resistance, this paper shows how digital religious publics simultaneously open and constrain possibilities for gendered and epistemic justice, revealing religion as a site where inequalities are continuously produced, challenged, and renegotiated in everyday digital life.