On September 11, 2001, 19 Iraqi hijackers forever changed the lives of millions of innocent Muslims around the world. These hijackers compromised a total of four planes and guided them to hit a certain target. The world witnessed the alarming collapse of the World Trade Center and the side of the Pentagon turning to dust. An estimated 3,000 Americans died on this day1, resulting in the most widespread witch hunt in human history. Speaking on the night of the attack, President George W. Bush consoled his people living through one of the greatest tragedies in American history. Ostentatiously, he recruited all Americans to fight terrorism, but his citation of Psalms 23:42 inadvertently excluded American Muslims from the hunting party, entrenching them in the same camp as terrorists. The United States of America was built on the principle of equal rights. However, the contemporary hunt for Muslims proves nothing but the opposite; Muslims are portrayed as terrorists and subject to constant attacks by the government and the people. America, the so-called land of the free, still cannot look beyond its own strictly stereotyped vision. To understand more about witch hunts, we need look no further than Langston Hughes' Salvation and Stephanie Ericsson's The Ways We Lie. Langston Hughes tells the audience about his childhood experience when he forcefully witnessed his encounter with Jesus. He affirms the power of “groupthink” through which he was psychologically forced to succumb to peer pressure. Likewise, many Americans are forced to despise Muslims simply because society tells them to do so. On September 5, 2002, an innocent Arab-American was escorted out of Westland Mall via s...... means of paper ...... renting him for two weeks until the Spanish government found an exact fingerprint match . Unlike common stereotypes about his complexion, Brandon Mayfield is a respectable lawyer in the United States and his arrest seemed sensationally absurd to his colleagues. Apparently, the FBI had evaluated his complexion to determine the arrest.8 With the Patriot Act in place, innocent Muslims are accused of crimes with which they were never affiliated. They also cannot protest their innocence in court because the act suspends their rights. They are held in captivity until the agency is satiated. Although the US government has the best intentions to deter terrorists on its soil, it is targeting innocent and harmless Muslims. To prevent unfair trials, the American government should repeal laws that are based on stereotypes and faulty generalizations.