Post by leoro112 on Dec 4, 2012 22:48:08 GMT -5
There is no downsizing the effects of terrorism, but the hysteria has led to the idea of the whole Muslim faith being based in acts of hate. The attacks on 9/11, and even more recently the attacks on the American embassy in Libya, have bred not only an air of fear towards terrorism but it has bred a similar fear towards those from the faiths that the radical terrorist groups claim to holistically represent. It has become the admission of terrorism these days when someone says that they are Muslim, almost like when in Salem if someone called you a witch there was almost no way of disproving it. This is a system called a kangaroo court and it is basically the principal of guilty until proven innocent. The kangaroo court system has continually wormed its way into situations in US history just like the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare/McCarthyism in the 1950’s, and The War on Terror in the early twenty-first century.
The Salem Witch Trials were the first instance of these injustices in US history, but it was far from the last. In the late 1600 when puritanism was on the decline in a futile attempt to revive the dying religion, the Puritans began a witch hunt trying every single man and women who was accused of witchcraft, and sparing few. This was a grab to hang on to whatever fleeting power that the puritans had, and it failed, sinking them further into the closet, filled with all America’s other skeletons. After the witch trials, the same situation, bar it different circumstances arose in the United States again.
In the Late fifties, a man fuelled on lies and backed by a man with two names, Jack and Daniels. The man that is mention went by the name McCarthy, and with a list of a couple names he began a revolution in the American culture of the time. McCarthy ushered in an age of fear, an age of sacrificing the innocent to save oneself, an age of anarchy as it were. At the time everyone lived in fear as to whether or not the person, possibly standing right next to them, was a communist. Unlike the Witch Trials of old Salem town, this was brought on by one man inside the government, as opposed to the whole consensus beginning to create the Tyranny of consensus, but the next time this would begin it would no longer be thought of as a precaution for what might happen, but rather for what has already happened.
The Attacks on 9/11 brought in an age of fear of terrorism, but the idea of terrorism began to become a shade of grey that faded in with the Muslim faith, and soon Americans were assuming that the two were transitive to one and other. The problem with that is that is the victory for the terrorists; they are trying to represent their perversion of the religion, and to believe that is giving them what they want, a Tyranny of consensus based in fear and hate. The question is how to stop the cycle and the answer is one that cannot yet be given. There is no way to know how the continual circle of tyranny of consensus in America.
Word count: 545
Works consulted: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/11/opinion-american-muslims-live-in-fear-11-years-after-911/
The Salem Witch Trials were the first instance of these injustices in US history, but it was far from the last. In the late 1600 when puritanism was on the decline in a futile attempt to revive the dying religion, the Puritans began a witch hunt trying every single man and women who was accused of witchcraft, and sparing few. This was a grab to hang on to whatever fleeting power that the puritans had, and it failed, sinking them further into the closet, filled with all America’s other skeletons. After the witch trials, the same situation, bar it different circumstances arose in the United States again.
In the Late fifties, a man fuelled on lies and backed by a man with two names, Jack and Daniels. The man that is mention went by the name McCarthy, and with a list of a couple names he began a revolution in the American culture of the time. McCarthy ushered in an age of fear, an age of sacrificing the innocent to save oneself, an age of anarchy as it were. At the time everyone lived in fear as to whether or not the person, possibly standing right next to them, was a communist. Unlike the Witch Trials of old Salem town, this was brought on by one man inside the government, as opposed to the whole consensus beginning to create the Tyranny of consensus, but the next time this would begin it would no longer be thought of as a precaution for what might happen, but rather for what has already happened.
The Attacks on 9/11 brought in an age of fear of terrorism, but the idea of terrorism began to become a shade of grey that faded in with the Muslim faith, and soon Americans were assuming that the two were transitive to one and other. The problem with that is that is the victory for the terrorists; they are trying to represent their perversion of the religion, and to believe that is giving them what they want, a Tyranny of consensus based in fear and hate. The question is how to stop the cycle and the answer is one that cannot yet be given. There is no way to know how the continual circle of tyranny of consensus in America.
Word count: 545
Works consulted: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/11/opinion-american-muslims-live-in-fear-11-years-after-911/