Allegiance, which stars Takei and Lea Salonga, dramatizes the corrosive effect of the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent in camps during the World War II, in which the U.S. was part of an alliance fighting Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the U.S. in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 gun attacks on Paris, including the mass killing at the Bataclan Theatre, and the more recent shootings in San Bernardino, CA.
In his televised reaction, Takei said, "failure of political leadership" was the main reason "hysteria" was able to lead to the internment of Japanese-American during earlier war, and he said Trump represents a new chapter in that failure. He said that in light of the current "hysteria" about Muslims, Allegiance is "uncannily timely."
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