Letter to the editor: Jesse Holliday's Letter to the Editor about Pastafarians inaccurate
By Dustin Tucker | April 13, 2011In his recent Viewpoints article, Jesse Holliday alleged that the Pastafarians at USC “have previously made enormous generalizations by grouping Islamic USC students with radical Islamic terrorists, once even saying that they promote a violent and backward religion.” However, this is completely false. Our organization has never once made so bold a claim. Furthermore, he claims that we “recently spoke out about a table on Greene Street occupied by an Islamic Awareness Group.” As a matter of fact, during the Muslim Student Association’s Islamic Awareness Week, the Pastafarians at USC canceled regular meetings in favor of attending MSA events. We relish every opportunity to learn more about those of other faiths, particularly those to which we are not regularly exposed.