A Muslim man says former coworkers at Bed Bath & Beyond called him a "terrorist" after he grew out his beard, and alleges the chain later fired him because of his religion. Jose Alcantara, 38, filed a lawsuit against the home goods company on Friday. He began working as a department manager at a Bed Bath & Beyond location in Manhattan in October 2012 and lost his job in early 2014 for not coming to work after a vacation -- although Alcantara says someone at the company altered his schedule without notifying him. "I'm 100 percent convinced that he was fired simply because he was practicing his religion," Alcantara's lawyer, Adam Slater, told The...
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