FERGUSON DEFENDS VISIT OF CONTROVERSIAL US HISTORIAN
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
November 22, 2013 Friday
THE NATION
The Labor backbencher who booked a room in Parliament House for a US
historian who is accused of denying the Armenian genocide said the
academic does not deserve to be silenced. Labor MP Laurie Ferguson,
pictured, booked a committee room on the request of a former
constituent for a talk on Thursday afternoon by Justin McCarthy,
a professor of history at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
Professor McCarthy’s views on the so-called Armenian genocide, in which
more than 1 million people are thought to have died at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923, have made him a controversial
figure. Professor McCarthy is held by Armenians in similar low regard
as Jews hold Holocaust denier David Irving. Mr Ferguson said he did
not agree with all of Professor McCarthy’s views, but “he’s not a
denier and I don’t think closing him down would be justified”.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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