The American Library Association's Stealth Jihad Against Free Speech

by William J Becker, Jr
FrontPageMagazine.com
October 9, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/499/the-american-library-associations-stealth-jihad

Excerpt:

Last month (September 2009), the American Library Association (ALA) sponsored Banned Books Week, an initiative purporting to promote intellectual freedom, which it defined as "the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular."  Yet even while it was busy promoting the event to draw attention to "the harms of censorship," it was immersed in a separate stealth campaign to suppress intellectual freedom and to marginalize a dissenting voice.

On July 12, 2009, Robert Spencer, the editor of JihadWatch.com and author of the recently published "The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran," was invited to join a panel forum at the ALA's annual General Meeting on the topic "Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping."

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