You know, I have no time for any religion, but by the same token I respect people's right to follow what they want to follow (whilst reserving the right to quietly think they are nuts and to openly dispute any human rights abuses that their religion might condone). There are aspects of all religions that I find nuts. As a lapsed Catholic, I've seen that at first hand. But, for all my criticism of the craziness of it all, if we were that bothered about players not being able to take in water or that we might lose players to religious feasts, then perhaps we should not have signed them.
We did, so we knew all this all along. Didn't we? Kev? Marcel? Bueller?