Mike Skurko's recent lamentation about not having Easter off is ridiculous ("Administration must make Easter day off," March 18). Christianity may be America's largest religion, but Americans are tired of having a fundamentalist interpretation of it shoved down our throats. Isn't it enough that our president believes he was sent by God to redeem America?

If there's any real abomination, it is the lack of respect accorded to Islamic holidays. Despite being America's fastest growing and third largest religious group, Muslims around the country are faced with intolerance and unwillingness to accommodate. Last year, SUNY Albany passed a brave measure declaring Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha, the two main Islamic festivals, as official campus holidays. Penn State should follow suit.

These holidays serve to reiterate Islam's commitment to the universal precepts of justice, charity, and benevolence, and it would be a decent gesture of tolerance for the university to recognize them. Islam is here to stay in America, and it's due time we accepted that fact.