Crucible and modern day witch hunts
Salem Witch Trials v. Racial Profiling Since 9/11/01 In the play The Crucible, a group of girls in Salem accused many of Salem's residents of witchcraft, a crime at that time which carried the death penalty. There were several reasons the girls made these accusations, one was for revenge, greed, jealousy, and lust. As the trails progressed, the town was filled with paranoia and chaos. Many good and honest residents of Salem were accused of being witches. There was no real evidence for these accusations. But in America today there is a large population of Arab Americans that lived here without the fear of being threatened or persecuted because of their looks or beliefs. But after the terrorist attacks on America on September 11th, 2004 changed the public's view on Arab Americans. They are now racially profiled because of what a select group of Muslims did. The
If the person was accused and convicted the penalty was death. Many Middle Eastern people are singled out because they are from Afghanistan or Iraq, which in recent times have been places of terrorist and anti-US activities. Finally in the modern world witch hunts occur everywhere just as in the past. Middle Eastern people were not always the targets of modern day witch hunts. People once thought of as good and nice people are now thought of as terrorists out to kill Americans. September 11th, 2001: Terrorist took control of 3 airplanes. That mission is to kill as many Americans as possible and as much damage as possible. In The Crucible a small group of young women went around Salem and accused many people, some of them of being good and honorable, of witchcraft. Today in America analogous witch hunts are occurring but a dissimilar kind of witch is being hunted down. The targets might be different but in the end, it all has the same meaning, people are persecuted, killed, tortured or discriminated against because of one groups fear and ignorance of them. Many innocent people were killed because of several girls' expedition to get want they wanted. But since 9/11/01 it has been hard for Arab Americans to live the life of freedom and happiness when an ignorant society shuns them and persecutes them for what the actions of a group of people, with the same common ancestry but totally different thinking, have done to them. All they want to do is just live here like the rest of us but being racially profiled has made it hard for many Arab Americans. These acts have made life for Muslims in America hard.
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