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Witch Hunt Stereotypes

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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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