But Michalak tells the Observer the following: “We strive in our collection to have a wide variety of ideas. It doesn't seem right to celebrate one particular set of customs.” In other words, for Michalak, there is an easy remedy to the problem of representing only one belief system when one is supposed to represent many: Add even less belief systems until you don’t represent any!
Michalak was asked by the Observer the number of university library employees who had complained over the few years since she took the position at UNC. She said it was “at least a dozen.”
Maybe Associate Provost Michalak, with all her degrees and the authority of her position fails to understand a simple truth: She works for the taxpayers of North Carolina. And so do her religiously bigoted underlings.
As a North Carolina taxpayer, I’m tired of funding an assault on my own religious values by paying the university salaries of people not capable of solving real problems in the real world. So I hope you’ll join me in sending twelve faxes and emails a day until Michalak decides that life won’t be easy as long as she sides with those who oppose true religious freedom and tolerance.
Some may hesitate to send a fax or email citing objections rooted in the notion of Separation of Church and State. But those objections must be viewed in light of the UNC decision to assign a Muslim prayer book to freshmen less than a year after the 911 attacks. The students were not allowed to choose a prayer book from a list of “all belief systems.” They were only allowed to “celebrate one particular set of customs.”
Students read the Muslim prayer book, which was meant to teach them that Islam is a “religion of peace” – of course, this was done by editing out all the portions about killing Christians and Jews. A couple of years later, a Muslim student attempted to murder numerous “infidels” by driving his SUV through the “pit” – a popular gathering place in the middle of the UNC campus.
The Muslim male who tried to kill his fellow students later admitted that he was motivated by religious bigotry. It’s time for UNC library employees to admit the same.