KUALA LUMPUR – As Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump maintains his anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policy, a Muslim man performed a social experiment among Malaysian youth to gauge his acceptance among Muslim youth as a possible president for the US.

Over the past months, Trump has been accused of fueling anti-Islamic sentiment, pointedly calling for Muslims to be prevented from entering the United States in December last year.

The rhetoric has made a surge in anti-Muslim attacks.

In a 2015 hate crime statistics report, 16.1 percent of 1,140 religious hate crime victims were Muslim, up from previous years, despite the fact that overall hate crime numbers among other religious groups were declining, the FBI said.

Attacks have been taking violent nature recently.

Recent reports said that a Muslim marine was called a “terrorist” and thrown in an industrial dryer at a South Carolina boot camp.

The incident, which occurred in 2015, happened just months before the suicide of another Muslim marine who was reportedly hazed and physically abused at the same boot camp.

Earlier this year, a Muslim Stanford student was attacked on social media for wearing a headscarf, or hijab.