Arts & Letters Daily has the money quote from an article about the MLA. Scott Jaschik cites a lone professor who's uncomfortable with the atmosphere:

Just a few years ago, he noted, the Taliban was regularly attacked at MLA meetings for their treatment of women and likened to the American religious right. Now, there is only talk of how the United States has taken away the rights of the Afghan people.

He characterizes most of his students as "libertarian conservatives."