--- description: George Takei says that a Donald Trump advocate's recent comparison of Trump's Muslim registry to Japanese interment has "reopened... very deep wounds." title: George Takei Writes Against Japanese Internment Comment image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30984deb0b767fee/6988af098e0601fa1746850b/gettyimages-586320788.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Donald Trump](/tag/donald-trump/) ## Donald Trump Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # George Takei: We Must Not Let Muslims Be Treated Like Japanese Americans in WWII  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 18, 2016 1:00 PM CUT  Actor George Takei speaks during the 15th annual official Star Trek convention at the Rio Hotel & Casino on August 5, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Actor George Takei speaks during the 15th annual official Star Trek convention at the Rio Hotel & Casino on August 5, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Gabe Ginsberg—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 18, 2016 1:00 PM CUT [George Takei](http://time.com/4389864/george-takei-blasts-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined"), who lived in an internment camp as a child, says that a Donald Trump advocate’s [recent comparison](http://time.com/4574732/donald-trump-japanese-internment-muslim-registry/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined") of Trump’s Muslim registry to the interment of Japanese Americans has “reopened very old and very deep wounds.” [Writing in the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/18/george-takei-they-interned-my-family-dont-let-them-do-it-to-muslims/?utm%5Fterm=.a38e3ff006aa "undefined"), Takei recounts his time living in a horse stable with his parents in a camp and “the injustice that had been visited on so many of us.” He cites Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and spokesman for the pro-Trump Great America PAC, saying Japanese internment provides a “precedent” for a Muslim registry as well as Trump himself [telling TIME](http://time.com/4140050/donald-trump-muslims-japanese-internment/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") in December 2015 that he didn’t know whether he would have supported internment. “We cannot permit this invidious thinking, discredited by history at the cost of so much misery and suffering by innocents, to take root once again in America, let alone in the White House,” Takei writes. “The stigmatization, separation and labeling of our fellow humans based on race or religion has never led to a more secure world.” **Read More:** [Why Citing the Japanese Internment as a ‘Precedent’ for a Muslim Registry Is So Alarming](http://time.com/4574680/muslim-registry-japanese-internment/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined") ```json 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