How do we respond to someone who claims that Islam's honoring of women was great only in the past, and that women's freedoms in some countries today exceed what Islam granted them, and does a woman have the right to vote, by analogy with two women's testimony being equal to one man's testimony?

The answer concerning Islam's honoring and safeguarding of women, and the comparison between her status in Islam and what is claimed by feminist freedom movements and Western civilization, has been previously detailed in Fatwa No. 32635 and Fatwa No. 37944.

As for the ruling on women's right to vote and the regulations thereof, we have clarified it in Fatwa No. 57979.