COPENHAGEN – A video showing a Danish Muslim’s social experiment after last year’s Paris attacks has gone viral on social media after the election of Donald Trump as the new American president, being widely shared by celebrities and people supporting Muslims against hate.

“I didn’t know what was going on. It just got bigger and bigger,” Danish YouTuber Arian Kashef told Newsweek on Monday, November 21.

“It’s been crazy. I’m getting messages from all over the world from people that they got inspired by the video and were touched,” he added, saying he was overwhelmed by the reaction that his video has had in the last week.

Kashef’s video went online last November in the wake of the attacks in Paris.

Titled, “Blind Muslim Trust Experiment,” the video posted on YouTube shows Kashef standing at locations around the city of Aarhus with heavy footfall.

He is blindfolded, his arms outstretched, and next to him is a sign that read: “I’m Muslim and people call me terrorist. Do you trust me? If yes, hug me.”

The response Kashef received is heartwarming. In the video, he is seen being embraced by men, women, young children and, in the closing moments, another oft-maligned minority: a disabled man in a wheelchair.

The video went viral after November 8 election when Kashef’s experiment was reposted by a Twitter user on November 12.

That tweet was retweeted by the Spider-Man: Homecoming actor Zendaya to her 6.9 million followers. The posting has been retweeted and liked more than half a million times.

Later on November 13, the clip was reshared on Facebook on a public page belonging to DJ Samy Irssak.

In just a week, Irssak’s post had amassed 58 million views, been liked 940,000 times and been shared 919,000 times.

The comments on the video showed hope and tolerance, exactly what Kashef set out to achieve one year ago.

“If you are Muslim, gay, color, whatever you are don’t you ever feel ashamed or scared of who you are in America. You belong here and I stand with you,” wrote one person.

Another said: “Very sweet video. I’d surely hug him.”

Kashef has a message for those who have viewed it or just come across it.

“We all live in one world, we are all human beings… the attack in Paris was an attack against everybody,” he says.

“Attacks against humans is an attack against us all. We’re all in this together.”

Earlier this week, a British Muslim stood blindfolded outside a train station in east London asking people to hug him if they trust him.

The video is part of a social experiment in which Hassan puts his faith in humanity to test, and is being remarkably rewarded by total strangers.

This is not the first kind of such social experiments staged by Muslim individuals in an attempt to restore their faith in humanity amidst series of recent racial slurs and Islamophobia attacks

In January, a young British Muslim woman also produced a video, in which she asked people for hugs, to see how they would treat her for being a Muslim.

According to a video footage of the project, 18-year-old Muna Adan, a student from East London, was thrilled to see people responding with an incredible show of love.

For Adan, the experiment restored her faith in humanity over religious bigotries.

Similar “trust hug” social experiments have happened in Sweden, Canada, and France, with equally moving results.