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After the tragic and terroristic events on 9/11, many individuals from Muslim and Arabic-based groups have become subject to what some might like to call witch hunts. “Many were accused and were claimed to be a part of the attack, having their lives’ merely ruined” (Baron, “9/11 vs. The Crucible”).
Many individuals’ rights were violated for no reason at all. “Lofti Raissi was an innocent former Algerian airline pilot and flight instructor who was wrongfully arrested after the events that took place on 9/11. He was at his home in London when a police squad armed with assault rifles invaded his apartment and arrested him.” (Catalinotto, “TLAXCALA: Flight towards Nightmare: The Cautionary Tale of Lotfi Raissi”). It would make anyone feel very violated and mad if they were just raided and arrested by police for absolutely nothing. Lofti, like most people, had many friends and family members. This would put such a bad reputation on someone and they would have to live and experience all these types of pressure for nothing.
There are very many similar comparisons between the 9/11 victims of the “witch hunt” and the characters in the play The Crucible. Many characters and victims share the same situations and the same characteristics. As many know, Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, led the attacks on 9/11. “Osama Bin Laden can compare and parallel to Abby and the girls of The Crucible because both were the factors that caused the problem and both groups were the ones who were feared by many in society” (Baron, “9/11 vs. The Crucible”). In The Crucible, Abby and the girls were doing things that they shouldn’t have done, ranging from lying to participating in the events of witchcraft, just as Osama and the group Al Qaeda were causing t...

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...he people where he is from don’t agree with the ways of the American People and their religions, values, morals, etc. They felt that the only way to solve anything was to mess up our system and economy by doing the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001.
In The Crucible, the people of the town who werent involved in witchcraft opposed it and didn’t like it and thought it was corrupt worshing of the devil. They didn’t believe they way of life they lived and what they did day to day. In result, the people of the town accused many people and lots were hanged, pressed, decaptiated, or killed by many other means.
In the end, both stories consisted of many innocent people getting killed or losing the value of their life that they’ve been preparing, all solemnly based on accusations and judgements, resulting in “witch-hunts” to find and persecute innocent people

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