Two things…
1. Why the owner would purposely mislead his employees and inconvenience them is a real shocker. But people are people everywhere and are often unthinking as to how things play out. I have been to many funerals and often there are non Muslims who have come to pay their respects and they ARE VERY MUCH WELCOME AND APPRECIATED.

Many times we don’t see the non Muslim friends of the deceased I think because the funeral comes so quickly by non Muslim standards that most people are not prepared to attend the next day or even know where to go or what to do. By the time people outside the community find out about the death often they have already been buried.

2. I take particular insult to Mr. Mortuary Transport Export stating: “From a historical perspective of the beliefs of Muslims, I do know they are advised (maybe too soft a word) to lie to those who don’t believe the way they do, which would be all non-Muslims. They see it as moral to lie in that case, so they probably see nothing wrong with what they did. It does show again how unwilling they are to assimilate into our culture. ”

That is actually C R A P . You are NOT an expert on Islam or Islamic Jurisprudence. Lying is BIG SIN (HARAM) in Islam except and ONLY in the instance where your life may be in danger. The truth is that people lie, a lot of people ar shortsighted idiots and people do the stupid and wrong thing with the best misguided intentions are it’s a sin in all faiths.

We don’t make generalizations about Christians or Christianity because our boss or friend or president lies to us.

As you can appreciate, I see from the original post that you have encountered a diverse type of muslims, and in the most, people who are “normal”, yes? just with a different belief! this proves that the one or two idiots who reply should not be taken into the context of the majority. But i blame media in our societies for this.

Anyway, in response to the work post, I am appalled by what i have read on this matter. As a muslim, i know that many do not like non-muslims attending the funeral, however there are guidlines set out for non-muslims to attend a muslim funeral and burial. if these are followed there isnt any problem, as it ensure that the religiuous purity of the ceremony is not diluted by others (not that anyone would try to do this deliberately, but you understand what i mean)

just a general comment i thought i would put out there in this subject matter since it took me in.