However, the article highlights its rather amusing mocking of the mutaouine.

The Saudi satirical series Tash Ma Tash, a Ramadan staple for 14 seasons, has this year angered conservatives by taking on the religious police .... In one episode .... officials, dubbed "the guardians of virtue", ponder how best to ensure that women riding donkeys should be kept "protected" from men on the roads. One guardian proposes digging tunnels for women only, while another suggests females should sit in closed wooden boxes atop their animals and navigate using periscopes. ....

Tying into Bint ash-Shaitan's note, this unpleasant if at the same time amusing note on reaction among the retrograde illustrates some of the same reaction:

Predictably Tash Ma Tash has angered conservatives, prompting some preachers to lead their congregations in prayers calling on God to bring down his wrath on the programme makers.

The note on Egypt contrasts "liberal" illiberalism re 'banning' of mouhajabat from the Egyptian airwaves:

There is little doubt that the Egyptian government has been battling to keep veiled women away from television screens. Presenters who have taken the hijab have been transferred to off-screen work, despite court rulings that they should be given back their old jobs. "It is as if the regime is punishing the actresses because of their hijab," said Mohsen Rady, a member of parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood who has called for an investigation into the decision not to screen the soap operas. "We were delighted when these stars decided to return to the screen many years after they retired when they became veiled. Islamic dress should not mean isolation from society."

But the government may be fighting a losing battle as themajority of Egyptian women wear the hijab.

"Egyptian audiences are now more conservative than even the standards set by the state censor," said Tarek El Shenawy, a film and TV critic. "The state may just be postponing something that will happen sooner or later, unless the battle for liberalism is won in society - something which will require both political and economic change."

Imposed authoritarian pseudo-secularism is not going to work in the MENA region, the reaction is stupid and a long run loser.