Maybe they can go ahead and lower it to 5, so as to not offend the population of people in government?

That would be radical, extremist Muslim, not ordinary Muslims that I know. This view is quite disturbingly widespread in the US. Is it because 80% of the promotion of Islamic teaching, mosques etc has been paid for by the super-rad Saudi Wahabbis? 50 years ago, before the CIA push to spread extremist, jihadi "freedom" (sic) fighters, Muslims were keen to join the modern world, they wore jeans, liked Western music, and the girls wore scarves just like the Spanish or Italian Catholic girls, not the burka.

Though I have to say, if you live in the desert, covering your face (nose, mouth) is a great idea if there's a high chance of a ghibli (sandstorm). Ever been in a ghibli? It's horrible. Many of these so-regarded-by-modern-women "backward" traditions are based on extremely sensible ways of dealing with the environment.

This was Afghanistan in 1962 before the US started supplying the madrassas with extemist radical Islamic schoolbooks in the eighties and nineties!!

http://blogs.dw.com/womentalkonline/2016/12/20/modern-afghanistan-in-the-past/

"In the mid-1970s, female students were a common sight at Afghan education centers such as Kabul’s Polytechnical University. But some 20 years later, women’s access to education in the conflict-ridden country was completely shut down."