Witch Hunts and Hysteria
In the past and present no one has been safe from the Salem witch trials because people accuse and prosecute through fear and without proof. In the past the Puritans would accuse one another of Witchcraft and the only way to save themselves was by confessing to having practiced witchcraft and naming other witches; this really meant to accuse innocent people to save yourself. McCarthyism in the 1950’s was not really any different from the Salem witch trials, people were accused out of horror. McCarthyism targeted people who they believed were spies, of being a security threat. Witch trials and McCarthyism were not the only laws where people are accused and prosecuted without any hard evidence. Witch trials and McCarthyism …show more content…
During that time people feared being around Muslims for the reason being that they think Muslims will kill or by any chance to bomb them. Accusations started victims were Muslims and the accusers were almost the world. The outcome of 9 11 was to tighten security in airports this did not only apply in the United States, but probably almost every country in the world, besides security there was a racial hate against Muslims. Whenever someone is suspected to be a Muslims that person is automatically thought or accused of being a terrorist, this was devastating for the community because the United States in known for freedom of religion, free of speech, and freedom of press, apparently when the incident occurred there was none of these laws between the people, government, and Muslims, it may be true that the hijackers of those four airplanes were Muslims but if someone did something you don’t accuse the religion of that person instead you accuse that person specifically. This witch hunt did not end and it is still happening everyday. Nowadays people judge just by seeing what’s in front of them but do not see the other side of the story, sense the hijackers were Muslims of the four airline commercial anyone that is Muslims is a terrorist in non Muslim 's mind just like how people see any Mexican as an Immigrants but people do not know that for
In the past and present no one has been safe from the Salem witch trials because people accuse and prosecute through fear and without proof. In the past the Puritans would accuse one another of Witchcraft and the only way to save themselves was by confessing to having practiced witchcraft and naming other witches; this really meant to accuse innocent people to save yourself. McCarthyism in the 1950’s was not really any different from the Salem witch trials, people were accused out of horror. McCarthyism targeted people who they believed were spies, of being a security threat. Witch trials and McCarthyism were not the only laws where people are accused and prosecuted without any hard evidence. Witch trials and McCarthyism …show more content…
During that time people feared being around Muslims for the reason being that they think Muslims will kill or by any chance to bomb them. Accusations started victims were Muslims and the accusers were almost the world. The outcome of 9 11 was to tighten security in airports this did not only apply in the United States, but probably almost every country in the world, besides security there was a racial hate against Muslims. Whenever someone is suspected to be a Muslims that person is automatically thought or accused of being a terrorist, this was devastating for the community because the United States in known for freedom of religion, free of speech, and freedom of press, apparently when the incident occurred there was none of these laws between the people, government, and Muslims, it may be true that the hijackers of those four airplanes were Muslims but if someone did something you don’t accuse the religion of that person instead you accuse that person specifically. This witch hunt did not end and it is still happening everyday. Nowadays people judge just by seeing what’s in front of them but do not see the other side of the story, sense the hijackers were Muslims of the four airline commercial anyone that is Muslims is a terrorist in non Muslim 's mind just like how people see any Mexican as an Immigrants but people do not know that for