article_snippet.sent: Recently baptized in the Sikh faith, Kawal Tagore went to Kawal Tagore job with the IRS in Houston in 2005 carrying a new religious item: a 9-inch kirpan, a small ceremonial sword that resembles a knife but has an edge that is blunted or curved.
article_snippet.sent: Kawal Tagore needed to carry the kirpan at all times as a mandatory article of faith.
article_snippet.sent: But the federal government banned Kawal Tagore from the building, citing the kirpan as a "dangerous weapon" with a more than 3-inch blade, and Kawal Tagore was later fired from Kawal Tagore accounting job because Kawal Tagore refused to keep the kirpan out of the workplace.
highlights_snippet.sent: An IRS accountant is fired for insisting on carrying a symbolic Sikh knife to work .
  