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American Muslims in Witch Hunt of Discrimination in the United States The Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts during the year of 1692 relates to the persecution of Muslim Americans today in American society. The women accused of witchcraft had a stereotype put on them that they were different and dangerous in Puritan society. Muslims receive stereotypes as harmful and terrorists from the people of America due to terrorist attacks that have occurred in the United States. The definition of a witch hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people falsely accused for something because their opinions and not because they have done something wrong (Collins English Dictionary). Muslims and the people of the Salem Witch Trials take part in a modern witch hunt because the thing that they are accused for is not proven with factual evidence. All Muslims are not terrorists. Witch Hunt Today …show more content…

Americans think they are a menace to society. Muslims in the United States perceive a lot of discrimination against their religious group, are leery of Trump, and think Americans do not see Islam as part of mainstream U.S. society (Pew Research Center, 2017). According to Brown’s 2015 article, Soumaya Khalifa of Atlanta, Georgia, knows people see her headscarf and immediately make assumptions about her. “They think that I'm not American," she says. "They assume I'm not educated -- and that I'm oppressed” (Brown, 2015). Four in ten Muslims say that on a typical day there is something distinctive about their appearance, accent, or clothing that people associate with being a Muslim (Pew Research Center, 2017). According to Catherine’s 2011 article, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, sobbed, when he spoke and said “ascribing the evil acts of a few individuals to an entire community is

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The atrocities committed during the salem witch trials of 1692 are still common knowledge in current day society. Innocent citizens unfairly lost either their lives, families, assets, or all three. Highly respected members of the community were even subject to such trials. Abominations to this degree do not happen by coincidence. Many guilty souls take part in creating a platform of wickedness that demeans the humanity of its victims.

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In both The Crucible and in modern day witch hunts, witch hunts are caused out of fear or for personal gain. Jill Schonebelen wrote a research paper on Witchcraft allegations, refugee protection and human rights. Throughout this article, it mentions the persecution of witches today in communities around the globe, mentioning the flashbacks of similar strategies that were used in the past, doing different types of tortures. In Modern days, recent generations have abandoned wonderful traditions. Rather, recollecting others with distasteful memories such as witchcraft.

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Truth Untold: Unraveling the Salem Witch Hunts through Marc Aronson Marc Aronson uses this his book, Witch-HUNT: Mysteries of the Salem witch trials, to unravel and debunk myths surrounding the events of the Salem witch hunts and replace them with plausible theories based on evidence. Aronson relays that the modern ideas on the events of the witch trials and what may have happened are often wrong and the perpetrators of those pies used them to over stimulate the imaginations of those who were to believe these tales. The Salem Witch Hunts that are referred to by Aronson’s book are the hunts and trials that took place between February 1692 through May of 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. In a time of lawlessness or anarchy in

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One of the most infamous witch trials to take place was the Salem Witch hunts in 1692. It caused much hysteria in the town and caused many people to be accused, which led to a total of twenty-five people being wrongfully accused and killed. It might be hard to believe that these accusations and deaths all spiraled from the untruthfulness of a bunch of girls. The girls had many different reasons to behave this way, it has been strongly evident throughout history that these are all just fraudulent acts. A major piece of evidence that was documented was “witch cakes” which were created by Tituba.

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As can be glanced in summary from an article about the witch trials on the website for the History channel the witch trials first started to occur when several girls accused some older women of witchcraft. After this initial event a wave of mass hysteria flooded through the province of Massachusetts and led to accusations of many more people of the crime of being witches. At the end of this hysterical accusation spree and the use of illegitimate evidence by the court, that judge the accused, twenty were left dead. Now for comparison, the main event that triggered the major persecution of muslims in the United states was 9/11 (Lichtblau 2016). As NBC News has pointed out after the event of 9/11 many muslims were accused hysterically of being fellow terrorist due to belonging to the same group as the one who committed the attack.

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The Civil Rights Movement and The Salem Witch Hunts “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr. In both the 1690’s Salem Witch Trials and the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement there were groups of people who were mistreated and faced dark times. Leading up to the protests in The Civil Rights there was enormous tension in the USA between African-Americans and their oppressors due to the history of slavery and discrimination against the minority. African-American citizens, like those accused of witchcraft in The Crucible, suffered from the inability to work, they were more likely to be assaulted or a victim of a violent crime, and were segregated from the public.

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There were a variety of Witch Hunts throughout history. From the Holocaust to the KKK, all of the Witch Hunts have something in common, for example genocide and humiliation of innocent people. Witch Hunts are related to the world because they can occur at anytime on small or large scale. For example 127,000 Us citizens form Japanese Decent, 1942 relocation of all of the Japanese Decent were forced to move to concentration camps and not only did the US put Japanese in camps but so did Canada, and Canada places 23,000 Canadians of Japanese decent to camp. The survivors of these camps were paid 20,000 each in reparations.

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Witch trials had a lot to do with religion. In the Bible it says that Lucifer was a fallen angel who came to be the Devil that we know today. The people back then said that the “witches” signed the Devil’s “Black Book” and became his slaves. It was said that a sign that a witch was around was that prayer was impossible when they were

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Witch hunts, no matter the time period always are caused by a group of people looking for something to gain by blaming others. “Americans, the most optimistic of people, now faced unnerving official terror warnings? Their television screens broadcasted alerts.” This shows how these witch hunts have affected people throughout

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Lori Bramblett HST361 Essay 3 While there is little doubt that both the Catholic Church and the Protestant religions provided the foundational work for the witch hunts that took place in Europe and America, it is the societal implications that fed the flames of the witch hunts. Both the Catholic and Protestant faiths sought ways of demonstrating people’s commitment to God through identified moral behaviors. Each side felt they had the high ground and identified the other’s practices as heresy, which became linked with demons, sorcery and magic. As these ideas migrated down to the educated elite and then to local communities a shift occurred regarding heretical behavior and the fear of magic, malificia, unseen evil, and the pact with Satan/the

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Ever since the terrorist attack on the twin towers in 2001, innocent Muslims have been labeled as terrorists. An article from the New York Times states “that hate crimes against American Muslims were up 78 percent over the course of 2015,” in other words, people began to accuse many people after one action of others (Litchtblau). This can reflect on the Salem witch trials, due to the large amount of outsiders they targeted throughout the whole trial. People in the United States began to label Muslims as terrorist and it spread like rapid fire, similar to the girls who began the accusing in the witch trials. Recently, it seems as if our nation is on their own “witch hunt” for Muslims, accusing all Muslims as terrorists, in order to try to stop any other attacks on the United States.

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The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts during the late 17th century (1692 and 1693 to be specific). During this time, more than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony provided compensation to the families of the convicted and admitted the trials were a mistake. To this day, the trials are commonly associated with paranoia and injustice, and have caught interest of many people more than 300 years later. However, the Trials casted a dark shadow on the surrounding Indian tribes-specifically the lives of the Wabanaki Indians.

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When people were accused of being a witch or associating with the devil, to get the blame off of themselves, they would accuse other people of being a witch or using witchcraft with no proof or for the fact that they didn’t like that person or they were different in some ways. Examples of this could be seen during the second Red Scare when people accused other people with no real proof or verification. Slps.org pronounced, “Some Americans used the Red Scare as an excuse to act against any people who were different” This goes to show that Americans betrayed others out of dislike and hate. Americans hoped on the chance as soon as it arrived to blame and shame people that were different or had different beliefs. That is just one example of how America showed betrayal in relation to Salem in the 1690’s.

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Many practicing Christians, at the time, believed that the Devil could persuade people to use the powers that he gave them to harm others. The Salem Witch Trials occurred because of resource struggles, many women were accused and tortured, and in the end the Governor realized that it was a big mistake. (“Salem Witch Trials”, 1). In 1689, English rulers William and Mary started a war with France in the American colonies which sent many refugees into the Essex County and Salem Village.

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According to merriamwebster.com the denotative definition of witch-hunt is ''the act of unfairly looking for and punishing people who are accused of having opinions that are believed to be dangerous or evil''. Another definition from dicionary.com says ''an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.'' both definition’s share the same meaning saying, that people are being punished for their supposed belief’s or actions.

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