Muslim checkout staff get an alcohol opt-out clause - or Media overreaction?

I agree with Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, director of the Muslim Institute and leader of the Muslim parliament, said: “This is some kind of overenthusiasm. One expects professional behaviour from people working in a professional capacity and this shows a lack of maturity.

It is behaviour like this, in this day and age, that becomes an urban myth. And instead of helping the religion and fellow co-religionists, they end up harming them. While the company is doing its bit, it cannot really go to the end and say Hindu's cant handle non-vegetarian food, Buddhists cannot handle anything that was killed, Christians cannot work with homosexuals, or me as a Jedi cannot work with the Sith stacking shelves all because of religious reasons.

But I am also wondering if this case has not been blown up to a situation that is vastly out of proportion. Just 2 Muslims do this and suddenly a whole minority population gets blackballed. I think the Times should exercise a bit more care about its reporting. The tone of the article is frankly not showing that this is a tiny element and no sense of proportion is placed by the text.

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