Well, I have not really followed this case but some of the criticism are made by ordinary people too. Not only ultraconservatives. I don't know but maybe it's due to my background that I do not think that such issues need to be made into a big deal.
Also what I do not like is hypocrisy. On Saudi Arabian television and other Arab televisions (people in the ME watch TV from the entire region let alone Western news channels - Al Arabiya itself too, LOL) non-veiled women are seen very often if not most of the time, Saudi Arabian women are very "obsessed" about fashion etc. like many other girls in the region and the men are very familiar with Western culture and everything. Yet they complain if they see a Saudi Arabian woman in London (!) reading some news without a veil.
That I do not like.