Sorry, I haven't read the thread so forgive me if this point has already been made (it's late and I want to go to bed, is that such a crime :p). I apologise in advance.
But I read this in the paper and I was in fits of laughter at how they tried to pin it on "muslims".
The paper I read it in was the metro, which is usually fairly laid back. But for the whole article it talked about how muslims wanted the shaded windows, and how they got their way. But at the end there was just a solitary sentence which anniholated the context of the entire story, which was along the lines of "the few muslims were among many other customers demanding shaded windows".
The whole story just smacks of xenophobic hysteria. This could have happened regardless of whether muslims wanted it or not. But because some muslims asked for this as well, suddenly it's national news.
My local swimming baths got shaded windows last year because it was close to a main road, but it didn't make national news... Most likely because no muslims demanded it. In fact many winning baths have shaded windows as a standard procedure.
It's not as bad as a stub article I read a few months ago though, which spoke of how an "Asian woman" wearing a "face covering veil" stabbed someone. Instantly the standard tabloid reader who buys this stuff would think "ZOMG, a muslim stabbed some guy". But after a bit of research I found out that this woman was Chinese and covered her face because it was a pre-meditated attack and she didn't want to get caught, but they didn't mention this in the whole article. They were happy to imply that she was a muslim.
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On another topic. The company's only concern is doing whatever they believe is in the interests of the customer, in this case it was shading windows. If they want shaded windows, then they will facilitate this. I can't blame them.
