Following the rise of Islamophobic rhetoric and hate crimes in the U.S., George Takei and Katy Perry have used their voices and influence to take a stand for American Muslims and to counter the rising wave of racism and racial profiling. 

Takei has created a petition urging Americans to stand with American Muslims. It has so far garnered 154,858 supporters out of a target of 160,000. Perry released a PSA on YouTube linking what is happening to American Muslims right now to what happened to Japanese Americans during the Second World War, when they were put in camps and their constitutional rights ignored.

Perry’s PSA is titled Is History Repeating itself?, and tells the story of Haru Kuromiya whose life was changed by the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during the Second World War. The actress playing Kuromiya takes off her mask and is shown to be a Muslim actress named Hina Khan. In the video, Khan tells the story of Kuromiya and states in Kuromiya’s voice, “We were an American farm family now living in an internment camp and our constitutional rights were taken away from us. It all started with fear and rumors then it bloomed into the registration of Japanese Americans and then labeling with physical tags and then eventually internment.”

Repeated terror attacks during christmas and before new year's eve have made Trump to be firm on his laws and schemes over immigrants to enter the country majorly Muslims.