Caring about animal's/women's rights only when it comes to ritual slaughter/honor killings seems a lot more ethical than claiming to care about them except when it comes to ritual slaughter/honor killings. The latter seems more common among leftist Islamic apologists.
In my experience, designers are clueless obstructionists. They take months to mull over trivialities, then finally come up with an obvious solution that anybody could have seen from the start. Maybe I just got some bad designers though.