There was a case a couple of years ago in the District of Columbia where muslims refused to shave their beards before starting to work as fire fighters. Having been a fire fighter I can cvertify that you cannot combine a beard with the face masks that fire fighters have to wear to do their job. But the federal government got involved and claimed that “fire fighters” with a beard could do “other duties” at the site of a fire. The problem is that when you arrive at the scene of a fire, you cannot save the lives of people inside the burning building unless you can send in a team according to very strict safety regulations. These regulations mandate a team of four people to go in and start rescue operations. Two guys go in, two are outside and one operations leader. The two outside have to be able to go in and assist their buddies in a life-threatening situation. Hence you cannot have a single crew member who cannot put on a face mask and enter a burning building. But that was obviously of no consequence to federal bureaucrats…

Hmmmmmm. . .