Foreshadow Events In The Salem Witch Trials

Back in 1692, the townsfolk of Salem were on the hunt for “witches”, just like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is hunting down homosexual people. The Salem Witch Trials almost foreshadow events that are to take place many years after, one major hunt in today’s time is ISIS’s hunt on gay people. Of course, there are other events such as the Mccarthy era of communism hunting, the Nazi’s hunting Jews, and Joseph Stalin hunting political opposers but the ISIS hunting gay people is a current event. Nearly 25% off all men and women killed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq were supposedly gay. An outstanding 74,000 people have been killed in Syria and Iraq and almost 18,000 of them were supposedly homosexual. Only 24 people died at the hands of the Salem

Back in the witch trials, they usually just hanged them or stoned them to death. There has been at least 25 accounts of men being thrown off buildings by ISIS for being accused of being gay. Back in 1692 they only hung 19 men and women for being accused. In The Crucible, judges Danforth and Hathorne are very easily persuaded into believing the girls because it is what they call “invisible crime” (Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Viking Press, 1953. Print.) because the victim is the only physical thing in the case so there is no reason not to believe them. This resulted in the deaths of 24 people. ISIS is using the same idea, “invisible sentencing” by only determining that the accused are gay by their facebook friends, phone contacts, and by their style (Glanfield, Emma, “Killed for ‘being gay’: ISIS savages blindfolded man and threw him off

ISIS actually threw men off buildings because they are accused and not proven to be gay! The following is a quote from a man who fled Syria after his town was taken over by ISIS, “‘I was terrified to go out,” he said, according to the text of his pre-written speech. ‘Nor was my home safe, as my father, who suspiciously monitored my every move, had learned I was gay. I bear a scar on my chin as a token of his rage.’” (Segalov, Michael, “‘Being gay in the Islamic State’: Men reveal chilling truth about homosexuality under ISIS.”, www.independent.uk.co). He also states that ISIS literally pillaged his village for any gay men and that when they threw an accused man off of a building, thousands of people gathered around and cheered for the man to die. The man thrown off the building survived the fall and the townspeople gathered in a circle around him and stoned him to death. Just like in The Crucible, the townspeople gathered around the gallow and cheered on the hangings of the