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Modern Day Witch Hunts in Northeast India

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Modern Day Witch Hunts in Northeast India

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In The crucible a town is thrown into a frenzy over the mysterious illnesses plaguing some of the children. This uncertainty leads the townspeople to believing in witchcraft, and in doing so abandon common sense, and begin persecuting all those accused without trial.

There are modern day witch hunts going on in Northeast India. More than 2,000 people accused of being witches and have been killed. Nearly all of the victims are women. This shows that women are discriminated against in India..

There are many similarities between the to witch hunts. In both cases the majority of those accused are women. They’re are killed without trial, and people are killed solely for being accused of being a witch. In both scenarios accusations are linked to land disputes.

-Dylan Kraft & JT Smeltzer

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More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in India over the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.

The victims, nearly all of them women, have been swept up in modern-day witch hunts, often accused by a neighbor or family member who might blame devious sorcery for a bad harvest or an unexplained illness. But the allegations sometimes stem from personal disputes over property and the land rights of women.

For three decades, Birubala Rabha, an activist, has fought to end this violent, retrograde practice of punishing women accused of witchcraft. She works with state legislators and residents of rural villages to investigate accusers and protect victims and their families. A videojournalist, Vikram Singh, traveled to Assam State to report on Ms. Rabha's work.

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Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts in India's Remote Northeast

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More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in India over the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast. The victims, nearly all of them women, have been swept up in modern-day witch hunts, often accused by a neighbor or family member who might blame devious sorcery for a bad harvest or an unexplained illness.

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Some good police officers that are trying to do their jobs have been judged for the methods used in order to protect the public.

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Trials of suspected abuse among children at a daycare. Relied on testimonies of unreliable children and people were silent about the ridiculousness of the trials

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/salemparallels.htm

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When Hitler rose to power, the Nazis slaughtered upwards of 6 million Jewish people, simply due to the fact that he believed they were an inferior race. Even people suspected of being Jewish or sympathetic to Jews would be killed by the Nazis. "Work sets you free" Entrance to concentration camp

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The villagers would accuse the women of witchcraft and start beating them, it is mostly in Ghana.
http://www.newsweek.com/aftricas-modern-day-witch-hunt-67309

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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.

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Mexican Immigrants are often accused of being illegal and taking jobs in America from US citizens.

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Desiigner being falsely accused of possession of drugs.

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Desiigner being falsely accused of possession of drugs.

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he was likely targeted for his race.

Palmer Smyth

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People sacrifice animals in their front yard in Salem on Halloween. (This is modern day by the way)

Palmer Smyth

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Mary Wallace and Devyn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/21/thousands-of-women-accused-of-sorcery-tortured-and-executed-in-indian-witch-hunts/

This women's son died in 1996. She was accused of being a witch by her brother-in-law. She was later cleared of her charge by a witch doctor in the Hindu holy city.
In an Indian community many women were killed because they were said to be using witchcraft. A bunch of people in the village had been getting sick and they were looking for someone to blame, for the unknown cause of the sicknesses.

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Witchcraft in Africa; Audra, Leighton, Unison, Ananda

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Witchcraft in Africa; Audra, Leighton, Unison, Ananda

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 25% of pregnant women are infected with HIV/AIDS in Zambia. The people of this African country blame their misfortune on witchcraft. This event closely relates to those happening in the Crucible because the people are blaming witchcraft on the bad things happening in their life. One specific example from the Crucible is that the Thomas and Ann Putnam blame Betty's illness on witchcraft.They try to influence the rest of the community that this is what's happening and actions need to be taken to get rid of witchcraft.

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By Mary Schons

Friday, January 21, 2011

The most famous witch trial in history happened in Salem, Massachusetts, during the winter and spring of 1692-1693. When it was all over, 141 suspects, both men and women, were tried as witches. Nineteen were executed by hanging. One was pressed to death by heavy stones.

However, witch trials are not a thing of the past. Indeed, charges of witchcraft and trials of suspected witches are increasing.

The word witchcraft has good and bad meanings in different cultures around the world. A general definition of witchcraft is the changing of everyday events using supernatural or magical forces.

Witchcraft is usually associated with the power of nature, such as medicinal and poisonous plants, or rains and floods. People accused of witchcraft are said to be able to control natural events such as storms or droughts.

So-called " witch doctors" use combinations of plants and animals, as well as spirituality or supernatural ability, to treat medical conditions. These "witch doctors" are not accused of being witches themselves-they heal illnesses and ailments blamed on witchcraft. "Witch doctor" is often a derogatory term for a traditional healer. Traditional healer s, who rely on ancient remedies, are not witch doctors.

Unlike traditional healers, witch doctors use spells. Spells are words or phrases that are suspected of having magical powers. Casting a spell to be wealthy or lucky in love is an example of witchcraft.

Why do some people believe in witchcraft? Using the example of the love spell, some people may believe that the spell is the thing that brought them happiness. However, some people who are unlucky in love may believe that someone is using witchcraft against them.

People try to come up with reasons for their own bad luck, or someone else's good luck. If someone is really lucky, some people believe they must have cast a spell or made a deal with the devil in order to be so fortunate.

Belief in witchcraft is widespread. A 2005 poll of Canadians and people from the United Kingdom found that 13 percent believed in witches. For Americans, that number was even higher: 21 percent.

Most people do not believe in magical witches, of course. Sometimes, though, normally logical people blame supernatural powers for their misfortune.

Today, witch trials occur all over the world. Organizations like the United Nations and Stepping Stones Nigeria have found that the number of witch trials around the world is increasing. They are almost always violent, and sometimes they are deadly.

When people get sick, witchcraft is sometimes seen as the cause. This is especially true in places with poor medical care or few educational opportunities. Although belief in witchcraft is not limited to the developing world, witch trials occur more frequent ly there.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 25 percent of pregnant women in Zambia are infected with HIV or AIDS. Men, women, and children are accused of spreading HIV/AIDS through witchcraft. Some of the accused are leaders in the scientific community or government advisers. So-called "witch hunters" have been known to kill those accused of witchcraft with a so-called poisonous "tea." In one town in Zambia, a witch hunter killed 16 people in fewer than four months.

Dozens of people have been killed in Papua New Guinea, the eastern half of the tropical island of New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. In January 2009, a young girl was burned alive, accused of being a witch and infecting men with HIV/AIDS. A month later, a father and son were also burned to death after being accused of witchcraft.

Accusations of witchcraft can be associated with good luck as well as bad luck. Nigeria's oil boom, which began in the 1970s, has made a few of its citizens extremely wealthy. Some Nigerians explain this rapid accumulation of money and power as a sign of witchcraft. As recently as 2007, children accused of witchcraft in Nigeria were burned, poisoned, and abused.

In 2008, rumors that a successful soccer player was using witchcraft triggered a riot in Kinshasa, Congo. The riot and stampede killed 13 people.

In India, landowning women are sometimes accused of witchcraft. Neighbors of the suspected witch may begin collecting firewood on which the suspect will burn. The women, often older widows, are scared enough to leave their homes. Their neighbors then take their land.

People who look different are often the victims of witch trials. In Tanzania, albino people are in danger of being killed for their skin and body parts. Since 2007, more than 50 albinos have been killed for ritual use. Tanzanian witch-doctors believe the arms, legs, skin, and hair of albinos have special magic in them, and that their use will bring their clients good luck in love, life, and business.

In the Republic of Benin, the country's government has used people's fears of witchcraft to explain why some people do better than others. According to many legends, a baby that is not born head-first and with its face upwards is considered to be a witch. The so-called baby witches have been blamed for poor agricultural seasons or illnesses. Many babies are abandon ed or killed.

President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia believes he is being targeted by witches. According to Amnesty International, as many as 1,000 Gambians accused of witchcraft have been arrested and torture d on orders from the president. At least two people are dead. President Jammeh also claims to be able to cure AIDS on Thursdays and fires doctors who disagree with him.

So what can be done to stop witch trials or accusations of witchcraft? Trying to stop a witch hunt by saying witches don't exist doesn't work. AIDS and poverty are very real sources of fear.

People project their fears onto unfortunate victims. There has never been a proven case of witchcraft in all of human history. On the other hand, there are thousands of victims of witch hunts. People accused of witchcraft, if they survive their ordeal at all, often end up with ruined lives. In the end, it is the witch hunters who should be feared more than the people whom they accuse of witchcraft.

Quick action by respected authority figures is effective in stopping witch hunts. In 2005, an 8-year-old girl in London, England, was accused of being a witch by a family member. The girl's family abused her and rubbed chili peppers in her eyes to "beat the devil out of her." British authorities immediately acted to remove the girl from the home. Three family members were held accountable for treating the girl as a witch.

In 1997, the government of South Africa decided to do something about witchcraft fear in that country. They began an educational campaign in schools and workplaces about science, medicine, and HIV/AIDS. They also sent police to work with traditional healers and village chiefs. The police told them if they accuse a person of witchcraft and that person ends up being killed, the healers and village chiefs will be held responsible.

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By Mary Schons Friday, January 21, 2011 The most famous witch trial in history happened in Salem, Massachusetts, during the winter and spring of 1692-1693. When it was all over, 141 suspects, both men and women, were tried as witches. Nineteen were executed by hanging. One was pressed to death by heavy stones.

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People are assuming all Muslims are terrorists due to the terrorist group names present in the news. This is similar to how in the Crucible, anyone can be accused of being a witch.

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Islam in the U.S. has a long, rich history, but fears of terrorism complicate the future. Here's everything you need to know:
How many Americans are Muslims?
The Pew Research Center estimates that 3.3 million Muslims live in the U.S., which makes Islam the nation's third-largest faith, behind Christianity and Judaism. It's a diverse population primarily divided among African-Americans, South Asians, and Arabs, and a well-educated one: About 40 percent of U.S. Muslims hold college degrees, as opposed to 29 percent of Americans overall. Though Muslims represent 1 percent of the population, they account for 10 percent of the nation's physicians, and have included such distinguished figures as boxer Muhammad Ali, urban architect Fazlur Khan, and cardiothoracic surgeon and TV personality Mehmet Oz. But since the Sept. 11 attacks, American Muslims have been widely viewed with suspicion, which has intensified with the rise of ISIS and terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, Orlando, and Europe. American Muslims resent being blamed for the horrific acts of a few extremists. "Muslims are not the Other," says Purdue University professor Su'ad Abdul Khabeer. "We're Americans whose history begins with the history of the country."

When did Islam first come to America?
The earliest known Muslim to appear on the continent was a Moroccan slave, Estevanico, who was shipwrecked with Spaniards off present-day Galveston, Texas, in 1528 and helped explore the American Southwest. As many as 30 percent of Africans enslaved in the U.S. were Muslim. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Muslim immigrants arrived from Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, largely settling in the Midwest; later waves came from Bosnia, Albania, and other parts of Europe. In the 1960s, the Muslim population began to swell as the government lifted immigration quotas and many African-Americans began converting to Islam. Muslim immigration surged at century's end - 45 percent of today's Muslim-Americans arrived after 1990; between 1994 and 2011 the number of U.S. mosques more than doubled, from 962 to 2,106.

How well have Muslims fit in?
A 2011 Pew survey found them "highly assimilated into American society and largely content with their lives." More than 80 percent of U.S. Muslims expressed satisfaction with life in America, and 63 percent said they felt no conflict "between being a devout Muslim and living in a modern society." About 70 percent of Muslim immigrants go on to become U.S. citizens, compared with 50 percent of other groups, and almost 6,000 Muslims serve in the U.S. armed forces. Most of the tips about radicalized Muslims in the U.S. come from the Muslim community itself, the FBI says. On the whole, says Pew researcher Besheer Mohamed, Muslims have made "a pretty significant embrace of American culture."

Still, isn't radicalization a concern?
Yes, especially in the internet age. ISIS and other terrorist groups have become skilled at using social media and videos to lure young men who are "kind of living on the edge," says Andy Arena, former director of the FBI's Detroit office. Particularly ripe for recruitment are children of immigrants, such as Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook; and Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. These second-generation Americans are sometimes confused about their cultural identity - "anchored neither in the old or in the new," says former CIA Director Michael Hayden. They may find resolution of that conflict in intense religious devotion - which today can be drawn from extremist sources online.

How extensive is the problem?
Law enforcement sources estimate that 250 Americans have tried to join ISIS. That's far fewer than the thousands who flocked to Syria and Iraq from European nations with large, poorly assimilated Muslim communities, which make for prime recruiting targets. One major difference is that American Muslims are relatively prosperous. But there is one poor community of Muslims in the U.S. - the Minneapolis neighborhood dubbed "Little Mogadishu," home to the nation's largest Somali community. One-quarter of American ISIS recruits have come from this community. Terror recruiters tell potential members, "We have for you money, wife, and power," says Mohamed Mohamud, director of Minnesota's Somali American Parents Association. "A young kid who doesn't have enough mind to think, when he hears that, he goes."

Will Muslims be accepted?
That remains to be seen. Due to high birth rates, the number of American Muslims is expected to grow to about 8 million by 2050 - eclipsing Jews as the second-largest religious group in the U.S. But this age of terrorism, and calls by Donald Trump and other politicians to ban Muslim immigrants or monitor Muslim communities, have Muslims worried and in a defensive crouch. Many young Muslims say they encounter frequent anti-Muslim sentiment in schools and neighborhoods - and it's becoming more overt, not less. For 16-year-old Hebh Jamal of New York City, being called "a terrorist" has been a way of life. Sometimes, she adds, "you feel like the whole world is against you. It's exhausting."

A Muslim majority in Michigan
The Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan, used to be 90 percent Polish-American and overwhelmingly Catholic. But most of the Poles moved out after the struggles of the U.S. auto industry, and immigration from Yemen, Bangladesh, and Bosnia has transformed the blue-collar town of 22,000 residents into the nation's first majority Muslim community. It's also the first to elect a majority Muslim council. The transition was sometimes tense - beginning in 2004, the town gave a local mosque permission to broadcast the 6 a.m. call to prayer from loudspeakers. Some residents - and anti-Muslim voices on the internet - accused the council of planning to usher in sharia law. But city councilor Saad Almasmari says he represents all Hamtramck residents in accordance with local laws and the Constitution: "It was a political election, not a religious one." His goal, he says, isn't to make the city more Muslim but to "bring more financial resources to the city." Polish-American Mayor Karen Majewski says that Hamtramck is a place where diverse people "live next to each other, but not in some idealized Kumbaya, Epcot Center kind of way. It sometimes gets contentious, but we deal with it."

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Islam in the U.S. has a long, rich history, but fears of terrorism complicate the future. Here's everything you need to know: How many Americans are Muslims? The Pew Research Center estimates that 3.3 million Muslims live in the U.S., which makes Islam the nation's third-largest faith, behind Christianity and Judaism.

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ISIS Vs. Christianity; Collin, Winn, Alex, Frank

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ISIS Vs. Christianity; Collin, Winn, Alex, Frank

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every territory ISIS has captured they look for the christian population soley to remove them by beheading, firing squads, etc. they feel threatened by other religions and their pursuit of the jihad pushes them to remove all opposition. like in the harlem witch trials, the puritans are ISIS and the witches are like the christians. both ISIS and the Puritans are peresecutors that judge without solid reason