{"id":2556,"date":"2006-04-28T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T08:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/genocide.html"},"modified":"2006-04-28T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T08:46:43","slug":"genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"Genocide?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Get Religion, Terry Mattingly points us to an LATimes article on controversies surround the teaching of the Amerenian Genocide of 1915-18.<\/a><\/p>\n

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We are talking, of course, about the 1915-18 massacre of Armenians by the Turkish government. A recent Los Angeles Times<\/em> story by Elizabeth Mehren offered readers a glimpse<\/span><\/a> into the controversies surrounding the genocide by focusing on a lawsuit in Massachusetts \u2014 backed by Turks and others \u2014 that says students should hear evidence that the genocide never happened or that it has been blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n

Is this a case where free speech is absolute? Or is it somehow similar to cases involving \u2014 prepare for thunderbolts \u2014 Holocaust denial<\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n

How emotional is this? How loaded are these debates? Listen to these voices:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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