Terrorism and Modern Day Witches - a War with Terror

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The Driving force for this insanity can mostly be blamed on the 631-billion-dollar industry that branches from Television stations to newspapers; there is a constant source of media that can be taken in by companies and spit right back out to the American people, and modern day witches are using this to their advantages. A significant percentage of the media is consumed by propaganda from terrorist organizations. This is proved to be perfect breeding grounds, and many terrorist groups like ISIS have made this their primary source for recruitment. The media had inspired and corrupted the minds on those who turned into a witch that feels the need for more, to kill their neighbors in the country they chose to live in. These groups have sent out videos explaining their radical views and what you will get out of their religious sect. Some impregnate the hatred into their minds while others will find no reason for it, but now more than ever, there is an ominous vibe that people will get from looking at the videos these witches put forth into society. The non-fiction article, Media coverage of terrorism ‘leads to further violence’, by Jamie Doward states that headline-grabbing terrorist attacks with those that occurred during a bigger story, such as a natural disaster, have found a clear link between the number of articles devoted to the initial terrorist incident and the number of follow-up attacks over the next few weeks. Research from the Institute for the Study of Labour in Bonn, Germany has found that, “The total number of casualties from terrorist attacks in the past 15 years has soared from 3,387 to 15,396. At the same time, terrorist groups have increasingly sought to use the media to promote their agendas” (Jamie Doward). He also states, “Until now, we did not know whether media attention actively encourages terrorist attacks. This paper derives an empirical methodology to provide an answer to that question” (Jamie Doward). Overall, the media has created a breeding ground for terrorists to recruit more witches and they have used it to their advantage to make their radical ideals influence/create fear for others.

The idea of terrorism has been within human nature since the beginning of creation and was proven to be evidentially present during the creation of The United States. Whether the days of early settlement in Salem and the New England area, to the recent modern cases of 9/11 and in Aleppo, Syria, torture of others seems to be a reoccurring motif throughout the course of historical events. A prime example of the terrorism in American society is the Crucible, a realistic fiction script by Arthur Miller that introduces the great role play the Puritan religion and witchcraft had on the people living during the early settlements of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Salem, Massachusetts was a chauvinistic community and in the Crucible, the tragic hero, John Proctor, experienced first - hand terrorism from his own judiciary system because of conflicting social statuses and false beliefs of witchcraft practiced by his dearest wife. However, the whole community seemed to be affected by one malignant cell, Abigail Williams. Throughout the script, the Salem community experienced the same fear, profiling, and propaganda from Abigail and the fear of Witchcraft, that was experienced in modern day attacks. John Proctor could be correlated with the Islamic people, due to the fact that he was not a perfect man by any means, made mistakes, and he proved to no be guilty of what he was being accused of (witchcraft). And for the Islamic people, they are like everyone else; they are not perfect and innocent in everything they do, but only a few are guilty of terrorism. Abigail stared a false fear of having people not knowing who is a witch. Arthur Miller wrote in the third act of the Crucible, " I have been hurt, Mr. Danforth; I have seen my blood runnin' out! I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil's people-and this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a-" (Miller 1108). This quote is explaining how Abigail Williams, a source of this witch hysteria, is a manipulative human being. She uses absolutely any power and chance she can get to hurt others in her way, and she knows that Mr. Danforth believes she would not do such horrible things to others due to her age being. She still, however, manages to pull through and convince him into having nothing to do with witchcraft. With is idea of having no idea who is a witch and who is, the community sexily profiled the females to be witches until they could prove to not be. As seen today as racial discrimination against the Arabic people, the majority of the female characters were all placed on trial and were expected to show how they were not advocates of witchcraft or radical idealism. The final correlation between Arthur Miller’s Salem community and modern day witches is the fact that Abigail Williams, the antagonist, was using a lie to cause disruption in the community and threatened the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of the females in her society. These restricted values are the same values that are attacked today by these modern day witches and terrorist groups. To summarize, there are several ominous connections between Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, and modern day witches and terrorist groups restricting life, liberty, and a filtered pursuit of happiness.

To conclude, a common belief has been created from terrorism, and through fear, media, and racial profiling, “modern-day witches” create terrorists that find the motivation to go after and threaten life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The society we live in is embedded with interdependence in which we must be fight for each other in all social spheres in order to stop this hatred. We are a strong, tough, resilient community, and we all want to help one another. But we cannot live by each other’s happiness, we are always in each other’s dejection. It seems we have lost the path, the path that lead us to peace. People have envenomed the souls of man; barricading world with hate. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. We all must remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. And so long as men live and push forward, liberty will rise and never parish.

Work Cited

“Connections to The Crucible.” Mass Hysteria 9/11, impactof911.weebly.com/connections-to-the-crucible.html.

Doward, Jamie. “Media Coverage of Terrorism 'Leads to Further Violence'.” The Observer, Guardian News and Media, Jan. 2015, www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/media-coverage-terrorism-further-violence.

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