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Sure.

And I’d feel the same way about a Christian who refused to play on Easter. Personal decision.

However, if the guy signing the paycheck doesn’t agree, those players should live with the consequences.

Living by your principles means being willing to suffer for them, not expecting others to make accommodations so you aren’t inconvenienced.

If this football player can play as well as his competition without hydration, fine. If he drops of a heat stroke or gets trampled on the field, it’s his own durn fault.

The team should make him sign a release of liability.

I am of different opinion.

Most Conservatives, specially Christian Conservatives decry the fact that liberals/Elitists/NWO are systematically trying to eradicate presence of God and Religion from our daiily lives, from public square. Thus the uproar regarding kids not allowed to wear crosses in school, and football players who tried to PRAY before the game, not allowed to do so.

Then everyone was in favor of supporting those players and believed they should be allowed to kneel and pray before the game.

However, because the player in question happens to be Muslim, then people are not stepping back and looking at the big picture and making rash comments just because the guy is Muslim.

The way rights work, you can’t protect them selectively. If people are going to be for Christian Kids to have a right to pray before their school game, and for Shawn Green to respect his religion and sit out a game or two, then they should also be for protecting the rights of Muslim man to pray the way he wants to.

If the issue is that Vikings are not getting maximum effort, then it is a patter between Vikings and the player in question. They are the ones paying him and angry mob should have no impact.

If some employer feels they can’t hire someone because the can NOT accomodate that person’s religious beliefs, then they have a right to let them go. If the issues goes to court, then Supreme Court should decide it and then we all have to live with it.