Modern Day Witch Hunt By Jamie Dailey Analysis

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“Modern-day Witch Hunts: Broadly targeting the Muslim Community is antithetical to America’s founding ideas” The general argument made by Jamie Dailey in “Modern-day Witch Hunts: Broadly targeting the Muslim Community is antithetical to America’s founding ideas” is that all Muslims are being besieged after the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. More specifically, Dailey reasons that the fears that Americans hold are irrational in that they cause a light to be shown on the entire Muslim community in response to the attacks of terrorism that occurred on September 11. Dailey mentions the “Ground Zero Mosque” which is very close to the site of the previous World Trade Center, “ the persecution of Muslim Americans takes many

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