Argumentative Essay On Syrian Refugees

A few centuries ago in Europe, the fear of witchcraft led to witch hunts and executions. These occurred mostly in France, Germany, northern Italy, and Switzerland. “Tens of thousands of people in Europe and European colonies died,” and “millions of others suffered from torture, arrest, interrogation, hate, guilt, or fear,”. It is estimated that the early modern witch trials claimed the lives of nine million Europeans, 80% of whom were women which led early feminists such as Margaret Murray, Mary Daly and Barbara Ehrenreich, among others, to wonder: “Was the witch-hunt an intentional woman-hunt”. Back then, women were accused of being witches since Accusations of witchcraft required no evidence of guilt. The trials were “intended only to produce

The mass hysteria between today’s society and the Salem witch hunt can be compared through Freedom , Religion ,and the killing of innocent victims. Mass hysteria has caused a lot of destruction in society throughout the years. It has brought about a lot of chaos in both Salem as well as the present society. Mass hysteria has brought out a lot of fear in people in both Salem and present society.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves.

A present day crucible in today’s world that has been occurring more and more is kneeling to the national anthem and how people that kneel don’t like our country, are only focused on helping one group/race of people, and people are being kicked off teams because of them making protests.The Anthem protests started last year in August when Colin Kaepernick sat on the bench at an NFL game during the National Anthem. After the game reporters asked him why he sat and he said, “I am not going to stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that opposes black people and people of color” (Wyche ). Since this first incident it’s spread across all of the NFL, high school sports, NHL, women's professional soccer, and even in the MLB. This protest has even been caught in the eyes of the president and there is no sign of this protest slowing down.

In my opinion, the actions our nation is taking upon limiting the amount of Muslims and Syrian refugees entering into the United States is, in fact, a modern witch hunt. The definition of a witch hunt, according to Google.com, is known as “a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views”. Another definition is “an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence” according to Dictionary.com. Upon knowing these definitions of the term “witch hunt”, I do believe that the events happening with America’s recent travel ban, the issues involving allowing refugees and Muslims into the country, and many other controversial issues are acts of modern-day witch hunts. These events are directed against a group of people holding unpopular beliefs for wrong-led reasoning and, in my opinion, little to no reasonable evidence. The definition of a witch hunt actually surprised me and made me realize that many current issues facing our nation’s society could technically be recognized as modern day witch hunts.

Muslims are one of the most marginalized people in the U.S for their beliefs and their religion but after 9/11 discrimination and hate crimes against them had become even worse.Throughout the U.S people have been “Anti-Islam” and believed that the Muslim’s religion is absurd, want muslims to change their beliefs or, leave the country.According to “Anti-Islman Discourse in the United States in the Decade After 9/11:The Role of Social Conservatives and Cultural Politics”by David D.Belt on page 211-212, talks about how a post on Charisma News with an article title “Why I am Absolutely Islamophobic” was urging at the fact that Muslim-Americans needed to be deported as soon as possible ,or go under sterilization.Also Belt talks about one of Bush’s family friend being,Franklin Graham saying that he thinks the muslim’s religion is “very evil “and “wicked”.One last example a man named Gabriel had said Islam is the real enemy of America and that we supposedly “we will be doomed in war if we don’t realize it”. People are so brainwashed it honestly insane and very ignorant at the things people think about Muslims, its barbaric.They believe what Muslims believe in and their religion is wrong and they should switch to “Christianity” because it is the “American way “ or have them deported because the do not belong there and are “terrorist”.

Known as the trial of the century, it sparked a sequence of events that are remembered in history today as the infamous Salem Witch Trials. In the spring of 1692, citizens of Salem, Massachusetts, were accused of practicing the sin witch craft. Nineteen people were hung over the course of the trials, each of them civilians who were fellow residents to the accusers during the trials. The witches that were executed though did not go silent into the night, few stood up for themselves and fought for their own innocence. Along with the help of some companions, the townsfolk who were put on trial were able to voice their opinion on their execution.

Every year, one million immigrants settle in the United States hoping for a new beginning, new opportunities, and a new life; however, they are welcomed by animosity, injustice, and discrimination. Even the president of the United States finds these immigrants to be troublesome despite their dedication to work hard to sustain themselves in their new home. Race related crimes continue to increase and the government is clearly making efforts to prevent more immigrants from seeking refuge in America as evidenced by the recent Muslim ban put into place by the Trump administration. Individuals fleeing from discrimination in their homelands are welcomed to a new form of discrimination here in the land of the free. Muslim

According to UNHCR, a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries. When people flee their own country, and seek sanctuary in another country, they apply for asylum – the right to be recognized as a refugee and receive legal protection and material assistance. An asylum seeker must demonstrate that his or her fear of persecution in his or her home country is

As empirical evidence discovered by 21st-century science allows the world’s understanding of the physical universe to increase exponentially, more people grow skeptical of superstition. During the 16th and 17th centuries, however, a phenomenon of worldwide mass hysteria came out of the medieval period and swept across Europe and Colonial North America with speed. The concept of magic versus religion, specifically witchcraft, became the prominent collective-obsessional-behavior problem around the beginning of the 15th century. By the end of the 16th century, it had spread to the Puritans in the British colonies of New England and soon resulted in the shattering of due process through religious extremism. Roughly 400 years later, the

The Rise of Witch Hunts in Europe During the Early Modern Period Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1570 and 1680 – known as the great age of witch-hunts. Europeans had an extensive range of magical beliefs and practices, mainly due to the Christian belief that magic exists. The elite believed in magic as fervently as the most ignorant peasant. It was believed that some members of the society sold their soul to the devil giving them power to inflict pain on others and take part in supernatural performances.

Through a historical standpoint, humanity can be seen as a cyclic development in which old inclinations are further manifested to suit new social orders. As a result, issues that caused mass hysteria in an earlier era are often repeated again and we, just as the people of the old eras, are unable to recognize the flaws in our logic until it is too late. The witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries are perfect example, in that looking back today they seem like a stain on the history of mankind, but at the time being not many people stopped to think about the horrific acts they were committing As time progressed, and people no longer felt the need to ruin entire villages in order to fulfill their own philological desires, witch hunts, like many other trends, also came to an end. As of now, this end in mass witch-hunts can often be symbolized by the story of Anna Göldi, who not only signifies the change in how people thought, but also signifies the occurrence of excessive accusations in times of fear and ignorance.

Several religious resettlement groups and lawmakers in United States are pressing the government to take in more Syrian refugees, up to 100,000, in one year, even as over 4 million have fled the country in the four years of fighting.

Ever since the start of September 11, 2001, Muslims around the world and in the United States have been targeted, taken to war, murdered,

Since the end of WWII, the United States has been a large contributor of foreign assistance, supplying countries such as Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and other strategic partners of the US with food, weapons, and other war-based necessities. Although this has predominantly been the form of foreign support, the modern-day dilemma of refugees has given way to a newly relevant form of international intervention. The world is currently facing the highest displacement levels ever recorded--according to studies done by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, “an unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from home by conflict and persecution... [including] 22.5 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18.” (UNHCR). After further elaboration of those appalling numbers, the United Nations reports that out of 22 million Syrian citizens, 13.5 million require some form of humanitarian service and 5 million have been externally displaced as a result of the Syrian civil conflict. Regardless of the ample amount of dollars spent on supporting other states, the United States simply doesn’t allow enough of those needful foreigners. The Donald Trump Administration needs to support the reinstatement of refugees into the international culture by admitting 500,000 Syrian refugees and expanding the Office of Refugee Resettlement budget by $500 million by the end of President Trump’s 4-year term. As a world superpower, the United States is under the