Christopher Johnson has an illuminating post on the far-left/Islamist domination of the American Library Association, at Midwest Conservative Journal.

The web site for the International Responsibilites Task Force of the ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table contains what it calls Alternative Resources on the US War Against Iraq. Without exception, IRTF’s “resources” are all hard-left. They include Al-Jazeera, the Middle East television network much given to showing films of the murder of American hostages.

IRTF’sresources on the war against terrorism (which it puts in quotes) are similarly radical-left and include the widely-discredited Afghan civilian casualty numbers concocted by Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire. Its resources on Israel include the usual leftist outlets, Al-Ahram, the Egyptian state-controlled publication fiercely hostile to the Jewish state, Charles Johnson’s friends at the so-called Independent Media Center (the infamous Indymedia) and few, if any, sources that might view Israel’s existence even a little favorably.

Oh, and if you’re a librarian, they’ve got a petition for you to sign that reads as follows:

Now, with the bloody occupation of Iraq continuing, with the farce of a ‘transition’ to a US puppet-government with no sovereignty poised to operate under military occupation, with the occupation’s brutality against the city of Fallujah among many other areas, with the death toll of Iraqis and occupying troops climbing daily, with partisan calls in the US Congress for even more troops being heard as a proposed solution to the problems created by the present ‘inadequate’ force of occupying troops…

We the undersigned librarians re-affirm the petition ‘Librarians Say ‘Stop the War Now!’ and demand:

End the occupation of Iraq by the coalition armies, foreign corporations and mercenaries!

Bring the troops home! No new troops to Iraq!

Stop the violence of the doomed imperial project in Iraq!

No cultural aid to the occupation.

Librarians around the world once again voice their collective opposition to the militarism and imperialism of the US mission in Iraq. We also affirm that the Iraqi people’s fate is in the hands of the Iraqi people themselves and progress ultimately must mean a peaceful, democratic solution based on the national sovereignty of Iraq. Progressive-minded librarians everywhere will support reconstruction of Iraq only if and when occupation and war end.

Which currently has 450 signatures.