If any good has come of the tumultuous political climate, it’s motivated people to take action—and use the act of visibility to counter hate against the marginalized. Two recent rallies involving non-Christian religious communities followed suit over the past week—one in a show of peace, the other fighting back (albeit peacefully) against scare tactics levied against it.

First, the latter. It has been a trying week and a half for Jewish Las Vegans. On February 27, the Jewish Community Center was one of several Jewish operations like it to receive a bomb threat (no explosives were found; a suspect in Missouri has been arrested), and four days later, the house for Jewish UNLV fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi was vandalized with swastikas—which had surfaced previously on newspapers found on Maryland Parkway a month earlier—and the words “Kill All Jews.” Fraternity president Gil Hayon quickly organized a march, which he led from the Jewish Federation Building to UNLV’s Pida Plaza on March 6.

In front of roughly 200 people, Hayon and other Jewish speakers—including Metro detective Steve Riback—asserted themselves in the wake of spiking anti-Semitism, which has included well over 100 bomb threats to various U.S. Jewish facilities this year. The reigning sentiment: Be vigilant, be communicative with others and be visibly, proudly Jewish. “Hate has no place in our community and we must confront and defeat these cowardly acts of anti-Semitism,” said Alison Pure-Slovin, midwest-region director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Hayon, who managed an event approval from UNLV in one day as opposed to enduring the usual three-week waiting period, beamed at Monday’s showing of support on campus. “We had a very diverse group; it wasn’t just people from the Jewish community,” he said. “We had a large group of non-Jewish people here, we had our friends from African-American fraternities and sororities here, there was a Muslim family that walked with us. It was a great turnout, and we’re happy about it.”

Local Muslims seem to have fared better—no hate crimes or intimidating threats against it have been reported of late, community reps say. Still, with increasingly acerbic rhetoric against it nationally, mostly aligned with a travel ban the Trump administration has imposed against six Muslim-majority countries, two events were organized for March 3 at the Masjid Ibrahim mosque in northwest Las Vegas.

Katie Krikorian, the non-Muslim head of Revolutionary Acts of Kindness, coordinated the first: the Peace Rally in Support of Our Muslim Community. Even on a Friday afternoon— and while Friday jumu’ah service was held inside the mosque—about 100 people lined Jones Boulevard, many with signs pleading for tolerance for Muslims (and others). After prayer service ended inside, speakers reveled at the interfaith assembly before them. “We’re not frightened, we’re emboldened,” said Masjid Ibrahim director Athar Haseebullah (whose mother Sharaf founded the mosque). “We’re empowered because we’re together.”

Krikorian, like Hayon, was pleased at the diverse turnout at the rally. “I can’t fix the whole world, but I can make Muslims in my neighborhood feel like I’m on their side. [The government] can’t federally regulate us to turn against one another.”

Four hours later, Haseebullah moderated a panel discussion inside the mosque about the American Islamic experience. After touring the two-story facility, the attendees—many of whom weren’t Muslim, but still took off their shoes to enter the prayer room to further deepen their experience—listened as the panelists debunked misconceptions about both cultural and religious Islam (especially with regards to women and feminism) and praised Las Vegas as a good home for Muslims. Toward the end, Fahima Khalaf spoke of the several messages of concern and support she had received from local friends of different faiths on Facebook. The headlines may have worsened, but Las Vegas’ sense of community is flourishing. “It’s a wonderful time,” Khalaf says. “We’re all united. We’re standing for what’s right.”